ACTORS' IWTHRPRt TA TIOIS I(.EAN. HACKETT. YOUNG. MACREADY.
J. H. HACKETT - (J¾3le$, Cri[[œ[sllzs, -'œ., New York, x863, p. 49.)--Edmund
Kean, as Hamlet, after concluding his words to Ophelia, ' To a nunnery, go !' and
departing abruptly out of sight of his audience, used to come on the stage again,
and approach slowly the amazed Ophelia still remaining in the centre; take her
hand gently, and, after gazing steadily and earnestly in her face for a few seconds,
and with a marked expression of tenderness on his own countenance, appeared to
be choked in his efforts to say something, smothered her hand with passionate kisses,
and rushed wildly and finally from her presence. [EDwiN BOOTH does the same
thing. J.C.] [See III, i, 49. ED.]
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