The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 11 (of 12)

by William Hazlitt

MR. KEMBLE’S PENRUDDOCK

This theatrical notice is clearly Hazlitt’s, though he omitted it from A View of the English Stage. Cf. vol. I. (Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays), p. 237, where the same words are used, with trifling variations, in criticism of Kemble’s Hamlet. Cf. also vol. VIII. p. 376.

[205]. Penruddock. In Richard Cumberland’s The Wheel of Fortune (1795). [206]. ‘Is whispering nothing,’ etc. A Winter’s Tale, Act I. Sc. 2. [207]. ‘There is no variableness,’ etc. St. James i. 17. ‘Splenetic [splenetive] and rash.’ Hamlet, Act V. Sc. 1. ‘The fiery soul,’ etc. Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, l. 156–8. ‘You shall relish,’ etc. Cf. Othello, Act II. Sc. 1.