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A DRAMATIC CRITIC
which carried a considerable portion of
the Dramatist's meaning, and even fell de-
cently in accord with the rh}i:hmic scheme
of the verse. William Shakespeare, or
John Fletcher, or whoever is responsible
for Wolsey's share of the dialogue, would
have been tickled by the actor's perform-
ance, which was in the line of the " de-
scant " that Elizabethan gentlemen were
expected to be able to supply with the
voice, upon any melody, at short notice.
Madame Janauschek is so near the pre-
sent day that it has seemed best to me not
to make her work the theme of extended
comment. Her achievement on our stage
was great, considering the handicap which
she sustained in dealing with a foreign
language; she had a large style, and her
playing was steadily marked by intellectual
clarity and emotional power. Her unique
performance, the assumption of the French
waiting maid, Hortense, in the stage ver-
sion of Dickens's Bleak House, played
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