Clement Scott
Published: 2015-07-19
Total Pages: 356
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Excerpt from The Theatre, Vol. 4: A Monthly Review of the Drama, Music, and the Fine Arts; July to December, 1884 The best of these, undoubtedly, was Mdlle. Plessy, who became Madame Arnould by her marriage with the dramatist of that name, and after quitting the Thefitre Francais for a ten years' engagement at St. Petersburg, ultimately returned thither in I8 5 3. Endowed with considerable personal attractions and a more than average share of dramatic intelligence, She had, more over, acquired by patient study a perfection of elocution and a graceful deportment which neither of her colleagues, Mdlle. Denain or Madeleine Brohan, can fairly be said to have possessed no one could play the coquettes of Marivaux with more refined elegance, the delicate raillery of that ultra-artificial writer exactly suiting what Dickens aptly terms her mechanical ingenuousness but she never completely realized my idea of the great heroines of Moliere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.