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The Life of Edmund Kean (Volume 2)

The Life of Edmund Kean (Volume 2)

Cornwall, Barry

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1151465909
ISBN13: 9781151465900
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.09 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1835. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X. AS ALTERED MAN A YOUNG ACTOR A NIGHTEXCURSION--QUARRELS BETWEEN A FATHER AND HIS SON KEAN'S DECLINE HIS LAST PERFORMANCE RECONCILIATION WITH HIS FAMILY HIS ILLNESS AND DEATH. After a stay of two seasons in the United States, Kean returned once more to his native country. During his absence *, he had acquired considerable sums of money. His offences had had time to sink into oblivion. The public had grown less moral, or more charitable; and his friends and admirers had employed themselves with effect, in smoothing the way for his favourable reception. But the spirit that shone out formerly, and lighted up with its terrible fires, the tyranny of Richard, and the jealous madness of The Moor, was now almost extinct. Reputation, Iago, reputation,--had been the object of the actor's worship, far beyond what he himself had known. His vanity had been fed by popular applause. The public favour had been the step on which his ambition had mounted; and now--all this was gone. He returned an altered (but not a wiser) man. Disgrace had driven its iron into his soul. Excesses of all sorts had shaken and wasted him; and he, who once could throw a sommerset with any posture-master at Astley's, and who actually had fought a good fight with an opponent of the Gas-man, was scarcely able now to go through the common labour of a play. * It was during this visit to America, that Kean was elected chief of a tribe of Huron Indians, by the name of Alantenouidet. He rejoiced in this character; and in order to vindicate his title to it, he rode a wild horse, drank rum, and disfigured himself with paint and the skins of beasts, till his European pretensions were altogether lost sight of. In keeping with this infirmity of his body, were the infirmities of his mind. He lost h...

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