+ Cath World 112:109 O ’20 480w
Reviewed by C: A. Beard
Nation 111:480 O 27 ’20 800w
“It is a work of learning and ability, concerned rather with the clear and concise presentation of doctrine than with the criticism of it.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p369 Je 10 ’20 110w
“The historian who peruses this book will put it down with mixed feelings of amusement over the wordy contest and of despair at the unfamiliarity the combatants display with the alphabet of historical science.”
− The Times [London] Lit Sup p466 Jl 22 ’20 1000W
ODELL, GEORGE CLINTON DENSMORE. Shakespeare from Betterton to Irving. 2v il *$12 Scribner 822.3
20–19676
“Professor Odell has undertaken to do for all Shakespeare’s plays, tragedies and comedies, histories and dramatic romances, what has hitherto been attempted for two of the tragedies only, in Miss Wood’s ‘Stage history of Richard III,’ and in Brereton’s rather sketchy account of the various performances of ‘Hamlet.’ He has organized his two volumes in eight chronological divisions: the age of Betterton (1660–1710); the age of Cibber (1710–1742); the age of Garrick (1742–1776); the age of Kemble (1776–1817); the leaderless age (1817–1837); The age of Macready (1837–1843); the age of Phelps and Charles Kean (1843–1879), and the age of Irving (1879–1902). Not only does he give us what is to a certain extent a history of the theatres of London, he also supplies us with what is almost (if not quite) a history of the superb evolution of the art of scene painting.”—N Y Times