Critics Galore!-3

The felicitous stroke of Wilde’s wit is evident in his comment on Sir Herbert Tree’s Hamlet as being’ funny without being vulgar.’
On another occasion, after witnessing a deplorable mangling of Hamlet by an actor , Wilde is reported to have remarked that it would have been a fine time to settle the great controversy as to who wrote the play; one need merely have watched besides the graves of Shakespeare and Bacon to see which one turned over.
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Of one performance of Hamlet, the dramatic critic of the Denver Post, Eugene Field summed thus: So and so played Hamlet last night at the Tabor Grand. He played till one o’clock.”
Again it was Eugene Field summed up the dismal performance of Creston Clarke as King Lear. He had to say thus:” Mr. Clarke played the king all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was to play the ace.”
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