Mr. Beorbohm Tree has scored another brilliant success with the "Tempest." Of course it is a success of scenery, stage carpentry, and stugo management rather than of Shakespearean " interpretation but it must be acknowlolged tht the "Tempest," though one of the greatest of Shakesponre's works when regarded as a poem, is not so successful as a drama for stage representation. On the whole, probably Mr. Tree's method is the only one which would have any chance of success with the public; and although rigid Shakes; ens may shake their heads, most people will regard the production as being laudable as well as popular. 'The beauty of Shakespeare's verse may have been subordinated to pageantry; but he has given us a very beautiful' spectacle which realises the spirit of the fairy comedy as well as stage carpentry could possibly do, ho has given us a thoroughly ctticiont company, and if he has excised some of the text of the play—as managers invariably have to do—he has inter-palated nothing. Mr, Tree himself plays Caliban; and although there wide differences of opinion as to how Caliban should be played, no one can deny that his is fine performance. Miss Tree, who made so successful a debut, in the provinces " fow months ago, charms London audiences with her Ariel, with which she doubles the part of Juno, and Lionel Brough and Louis Calvert are admirable in the low-comedy parts of Trinculo and Stephano.
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