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Numerous instances might easily be adduced in which Mr Chaplin for the time made the spectators absolutely and entirely forget that they were but looking upon fiction. The soliloquy commencing 'is this a dagger?' may be referred to as an illustration of how much may be accomplished by gesture alone, for long before words came from Macbeth' s lips, the watchers recognised that he was gazing upon some appalling vision, which he strove in vain to banish. Then came the wondering, whispered question, and the sickening horror culminating in the appearance of 'gouts of blood.' In that after-conversation with Lady Macbeth, when he tells her of the voice that cried 'Sleep no more,' the long-drawn, tremulous utterance had a remarkable effect. The whole of this conversation, indeed, that not the slightest sound other than the two subdued voices could be detected. The applause which was so pronounced at the close of the scene, was simply an involuntary manifestation of admiration. … |
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