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Ophelia he ever saw. Some aspects of provincial drama in the eighteenth century Frederick T. Wood English Studies, Volume 14, Issue 1 - 6 1932 (p. 73) |
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Of Mrs. Stephen Kemble, a writer in Blackwood's Magazine, 1832, said :—" There were few more delightful actresses in her day. In speaking she had a clear silver voice, ' most musical, most melancholy' (though she was not a little of a vixen, and in pure spite once almost bit a piece out of the shoulder of Henry Johnston, in Young Norual, while bending over ' my beautiful, my brave, in the maternal character of Lady Randolph}, and she sung with the sweetest pathos. From many fair eyes now shut have we seen her Ophelia draw tears in the mad scene, and she was a delicious Juliet, and an altogether incomparable Yarico. Not so lovely as the fair O'Neill, nor so romantic, for she had borne children ; but her eyes had far more of that unconsciously alluring expression of innocence and voluptuousness which must have shown through the long fringes of the large lamping orbs (sic) of the fond Italian girl who at fourteen was a bride, and but for that fatal sleeping draught, ere fifteen would have been a mother. In Catherine, again, we have more than once been delighted to see her play the devil. To her it was not every man, we can assure you, that was able to be a Petruchio. In all the parts she played she was impassioned ; and all good judges who remember her will agree with us in thinking that she was an actress, not only of talent but of genius." Her maiden name was Satchell. Boaden is enthusiastic in her praise. See "Life of Siddons," pp. 214, 215, vol. i.—Ed. |
Of Mrs. Stephen Kemble, a writer in Blackwood's Magazine, 1832, said :—" There were few more delightful actresses in her day. In speaking she had a clear silver voice, ' most musical, most melancholy' (though she was not a little of a vixen, and in pure spite once almost bit a piece out of the shoulder of Henry Johnston, in Young Norual, while bending over ' my beautiful, my brave, in the maternal character of Lady Randolph}, and she sung with the sweetest pathos. From many fair eyes now shut have we seen her Ophelia draw tears in the mad scene, and she was a delicious Juliet, and an altogether incomparable Yarico. Not so lovely as the fair O'Neill, nor so romantic, for she had borne children ; but her eyes had far more of that unconsciously alluring expression of innocence and voluptuousness which must have shown through the long fringes of the large lamping orbs (sic) of the fond Italian girl who at fourteen was a bride, and but for that fatal sleeping draught, ere fifteen would have been a mother. In Catherine, again, we have more than once been delighted to see her play the devil. To her it was not every man, we can assure you, that was able to be a Petruchio. In all the parts she played she was impassioned ; and all good judges who remember her will agree with us in thinking that she was an actress, not only of talent but of genius." Her maiden name was Satchell. Boaden is enthusiastic in her praise. See "Life of Siddons," pp. 214, 215, vol. i.—Ed. |
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Elizabeth Kemble (née Satchell) [born 1763, London; died Jan. 20, 1841, near Durham, Eng.] was a British actress who married Stephen Kemble, of the famous Kemble family. English actress of great ability. Elizabeth Satchell was a talented performer when she married Kemble in 1783, and for several years they acted together. When engagements took her husband out of town she accompanied him. She outlived him by 19 years.
Wilkinson, indeed, declares that next to Mrs. Cibber1 she was the best
Ophelia he ever saw. Some aspects of provincial drama in the eighteenth century Frederick T. Wood English Studies, Volume 14, Issue 1 - 6 1932 (p. 73)
Of Mrs. Stephen Kemble, a writer in Blackwood's Magazine, 1832, said :—" There were few more delightful actresses in her day. In speaking she had a clear silver voice, ' most musical, most melancholy' (though she was not a little of a vixen, and in pure spite once almost bit a piece out of the shoulder of Henry Johnston, in Young Norual, while bending over ' my beautiful, my brave, in the maternal character of Lady Randolph}, and she sung with the sweetest pathos. From many fair eyes now shut have we seen her Ophelia draw tears in the mad scene, and she was a delicious Juliet, and an altogether incomparable Yarico. Not so lovely as the fair O'Neill, nor so romantic, for she had borne children ; but her eyes had far more of that unconsciously alluring expression of innocence and voluptuousness which must have shown through the long fringes of the large lamping orbs (sic) of the fond Italian girl who at fourteen was a bride, and but for that fatal sleeping draught, ere fifteen would have been a mother. In Catherine, again, we have more than once been delighted to see her play the devil. To her it was not every man, we can assure you, that was able to be a Petruchio. In all the parts she played she was impassioned ; and all good judges who remember her will agree with us in thinking that she was an actress, not only of talent but of genius." Her maiden name was Satchell. Boaden is enthusiastic in her praise. See "Life of Siddons," pp. 214, 215, vol. i.—Ed.
References
Encyclopædia Britannica