Sir Henry Irving—A Record of Over Twenty Years at the Lyceum

Note 12 — Chapter V · 1874. ‘HAMLET’—‘OTHELLO’—‘MACBETH’—DEATH OF ‘THE COLONEL’—‘QUEEN MARY.’

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I have seen in an old criticism a notice of a leading performer who in similar fashion “condescended”—so it was phrased—to the part of the Ghost, and whose impersonation was declared to be “more than usually gentlemanlike and reputable.”

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