My 19th-century blogger, Frances Williams Wynn, is tonight back at the theatre, with Macready’s Coriolanus, comparing it to that of another 19th-century great, Kemble.
“I should say that Kemble was more Roman, more dignified, and Macready more true to universal nature,” is her conclusion.
Interesting to compare it to the recent Globe production of the same play – I suspect the bull-headed military glory-seeking might have made more sense to her era than our own.
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