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Shakespeare, that were included byE dwin Booth in his customary repertory, namely, Richelieu, The Fool sR evenge,1 Brutus, Ruy Bias, and Don Ccesar deB azan. In addition to these, he occasionally presented AN ew Way toP ay Old Debts, The I ron Chest, The A postate, The Lady of Lyons, and The Stranger, impersonating Sir Giles Overreach, Sir Edward Mortimer, Pescara, Claude Melnotte, and the sad and cynical hermit husband of Mrs. Haller. He had, in his lime, played scores of parts. Old records that I possess name him as the representative of Wilford, Hemeya, Titus, Graiiano, Cassio, Laertes, Edgar, Mr. Dombey, Richmond, Charles II, Dazzle, Frank Heartall, Captain A bsolute, Charles Surface, Colonel Mannering, andY oung Marlowe. The list might be largely augmented. Edwin Booth, essentially a tragedian, attained to greatness in the acting of tragedy, but he reached that eminence by the practical development and discipline of his faculties in the embodiment of many and widely diversified parts as well as by the power of his genius, the charm of his personality, and the force of his character. One of his early embodiments was that of Henry II, in a play on that kings life by Messrs. Hollister and Champlin, produced at New Orleans in i8jp. This performance was not given elsewhere, and I never saw it, but the record of it is cordial with admiration, and Booth
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