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    • COMING SHADOWS,
    • THE SHAKESPEARE OF THE PERIOD.
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      B7 An Ex-Amateur Of Two Feet. Study Iii....

      Rosely ( sweetly ) . —Don ' t mention it—my fault . | Exit 'very quietly the gentleman . Well-bred applause , j & c , & c , & c , & c , & c , & c . prompters The part -it played formed by an Rosel echo y was on the very stage efficiently ! Adol spoken phus Noodle by the p out layed being with forcible his usual , and ability obtrusive , that is without to say , he being was good loud . with The - was Lady of little Lyons better was because decidedl was bad shorter , but the Handsome thus more Husband easil borne . , , y the After carriages the theatricals were called there , and was the a supper guests , retire and after d to the their supper own homes . Thus And now ended upon Lady leaving Carboro my ' s friend private , the theatricals amateur . actor , let me ever once more will be express , the my quintessence opinion of of his selfishness character . and He conceit is and . o U tterl himself y disregardless and calls to of a the ll th comfort e world of to bow others , he wn makes before a god m p and ered the to fellow face worship , of in the the at earth his king shrine . dom A . selfish act P u rofessedl all man y , he is is y , not the he is greatest a the leasant best nuisance fellow temto knowand he is very selfish . A conceited man p is always to disgusted be avoided , am , and I with he is amateur very conceited actors . . With I can few scarcel exceptions y write they how for are the utterl real y devoid stage they of talent would . scarcel If they y secure exchanged an engagement the amateur at m Occasionall inor provincial the conceit theatre of s , our even amateurs to play has " second business so mon . " - strous that they y have appeared as professionals grown on the London sta a ttempt is ge . a painful s I h am as happy been sight , very to nearl see happy y a every gentleman , to instance say that strutting - the Dead result Failure about of these the ! roug " boards hs and , " and potboys mouthing . It is out a his painful words sig before ht to see an audience your friend of will making do these a fool things of himself they in mustj a private but let drawing them not -room be . proud If men of their degradation . Because a man is mad enough to play the think mummer s it , di sur gnified ely he to need grin not throug drop h a the horse gentleman -collar , surel —because y he need he vered not forget the the end usages of degradation of Society . in I a thoug drunken ht that , strolling I had disco circus - a clown lower , but depth the . silly , conceited , selfish amateur has found for me

      154 Thb Tomahawk. [April 3, 1869.

      154 THB TOMAHAWK . [ April 3 , 1869 .

      Coming Shadows,

      COMING SHADOWS ,

      Vis Consili Expers 9 &*£.> &^>C. F The A...

      Vis Consili Expers &* £ . > &^> c . f the Already Irish Church rumour Bill is in busy the in House regard of to Lords the . probable The fat deci e of - sive majority it has received in the National Assembly very of course adds an element of excitement to the speculation . " What will wholesome happen sure . However if the but Lords disagreeable , as Eng throw land it catastrophe is out scarc 1 " el Why y , ri all pe , a Mr at revolution present . Gladstone for , to that has be to is not do is a difficult to provide task for . a There sure majority are three among ways of the ensuring peers . This success . First . — ; creating £ B 10 y , 000 resorting a a -p lot iece of to to new the any good peerages willing old . honest snobs These . English There might would be method sold be for of a in brisk bribing demand the , refractory and the fun opponents d so raised of mi the ght measure be emp . loyed This as has safe been , if so not often novel done . before that it may be looked upon Secondly monstrants of — . dividing By another . some Harry good of VIII the old . seized did English this revenues wit method h some among , namel effect the y , as that re a - good admit many if they of the refer present to their anti- rent sacrilege -rolls . declaimers However , must the Commons , would not stand this—perhaps . , Thirdly ing . — a B clause y letting in the the Peers Bill next oppose Session the measure to abolish , and them insert at - the no mean same s time impossible . This . might be undesirable , but it is by

      The Shakespeare Of The Period.

      THE SHAKESPEARE OF THE PERIOD .

      Preface. Disrespect The Period For , Any...

      Preface . disrespect The Period for , anything among other and vices everything , has brought which with may it be a certain called politans old fashioned of the . period There who are none think of it the worth pure the and waste simp of le cosmo time to - the inquire depths into of the past intelli imaginations gences of days . How gone many by , one or even meets dip every into savages day who , think and , Shakespeare with propriety a , Chaucer prosy nuisance and Spenser ! Thoug illiterate h , of what course is , , we must cannot be best think in of the running best of counter worlds to possible the period ) , still ( for on view mature to reflection better , we informed think that than it their is as nei well hbours —firstl secondl y , with , a in hopes appear of their deriving some entertainment g therefrom ; ; that y , with contemporary the stories youth on which should the have once some great and acquaintance renowned , at Swan least of , the Avon lines founded which his some much intolerable over-rated old productions bores are , wont and also to quote with from time to time in the social world . With a view to forward these ideas and , at the same time , to tempt by a modern exadapted terior , the for eye the of present the period super — - boy sensational or girl , we and produce rapid age a traged , from y a , play of William Shakespeare , once known to our ancestors as

      GENERAL O'THELLO ; OR , THE WIPE AND THE WIPER . CHARACTERS . Christy Cassidy , Lieutenant O'Thello , in General the same in . the ( 2 ) Fenian Army . ( 1 ) Ensign Desdemona James , Wife . ( 3 ) to the General . ( 4 ) ACT I . NEAR THE PHCENIX . ( S ) Enter Ensign James , returning from mess . Ensign service James ! . —There ' s no remedy—' tis the curse of the For Promotion Or Being must daws full I to of wear goes peck supp my by er at purchase harp and ? I effervescent ( am 6 ) upon . not Shall what my I draught sleeve never I am i rise s , [ Mysteriousl in rank , y . Of Last General week I O started 'Thello up . " the Loo pa k -in to -law your house ! " I cried . " Your daughter ' s bolted with a serenader . " But He called it is true me : villai our n General , wretch has —I bolted know not what . — With Or half fair -caste Miss ! Desdemona . —He ' s a nigger , too , Enter General O'Thello . General . —Ensign ! How do ! I ' m out of court . To The In my Gretna gov defence ' nor Green had , as me ; pote but up I for , addressed grave running , and the off reverend jury , .

      The (1 Venetian ) Of Course You Will But...

      the ( 1 Venetian ) Of course you will but fancy as Venice you have has no heard this gentleman miht as was well in ori make gin him we have a army gondolier made ; him j , so , a as Fenian the nam . It e evidentl does army not , you y h is urt of Shakespeare g Hibernian and material , We are ly well improves aware the that piece Cassio . is the old reading , but as Cassidy is of the name y Irish . name similar , we prefer it to the more ancient spelling the ( 3 above ) Shakesperian their old readers friend an may cient have Iago some . This difficulty is , howe in disco ver ve a correct ring in translation . , Cushla ( 4 ) This -Machree name and seems has therefore quite as been feminine retained as . Arrah-na-Pogue , or interest ( 5 ) Spelt . Venice , in the original . Incompatible with the Fenian ( 6 ) It appears that in the Fenian army an ensign wore the harp upon captain his , the slee Irish ve ; bull a lieutenant on his collar , the . shillelag We have h every on his reason back to , and believe the , grades by analogy , with , that the addition the same of distinctive gold embroidery signs . were used for the higher

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    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), April 3, 1869, page 154, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_03041869/page/10/