...couples the part with Coriolanus, and accuses Macready of not being heroic enough. " He stole into the chamber of Duncan like a man going to purloin a purse, not like a warrior going to snatch a crown." Sir Walter Scott was of the same opinion as the critic, for he took the plumes out of John Kemble's...

...gave of a conscience wavering under the influence of 'fate and metaphysical aid,' superstitious arid weakly, cherishing the suggestions of superstition...characters of the modern drama, such as Virginius, Will/am Tell, Werner, Richelieu, Claude Melnotte, and Ruy Gomez. As Virginius, a, part in which he...

...accuses Macready of not being heroic enough. " He stole into the chamber of Duncan like a mangoing to purloin a purse, not like a warrior going to snatch a crown." Sir Walter Scott was of the same opinion as the critic, for he took the plumes out of John Kemble's...

...was commonly held a grave defect. " He stole into the sleeping-chamber of Duncan," says GH Lewes, " like a man going to purloin a purse, not like a warrior going to snatch a crown." Westland Marston, on the other hand, found "the moral of the play made visible " in the contrast between...

...provocations of his wife ; he was ignoble under the terrors of remorse ; he stole into the sleeping-chamber of Duncan like a man going to purloin a purse, not like a warrior going to snatch a crown. " In Othello, again, his passion was irritability, and his agony had no grandeur. His Hamlet I thought...

...head of his list. Leigh Hunt complained of a lack of kingliness in the murder scene ; Lewes said, " He stole into the sleeping chamber of Duncan like...purse, not like a warrior going to snatch a crown ; " Westland Marston spoke of the " crouching form and stealthy, felon-like step of the self-abased...

...less heroic than Macready's presentation of the great criminal ... he stole into the sleeping-chamber of Duncan like a man going to purloin a purse, not like a warrior going to snatch a crown.'3 John Forster took a different view of Macready's interpretation of Macbeth. On October 4,...

...wife; he was ignoble under the terrors of remorse; he stole into the sleeping-chamber of Duncan [2.2] like a man going to purloin a purse, not like a warrior going to snatch a crown.' * See, respectively, Morning Herald, t0 June t820 (a review of Macready's first Macbeth) quoted in...

...provocations of his wife; he was ignoble under the terrors of remorse; he stole into the sleeping-chamber of Duncan like a man going to purloin a purse, not like a warrior going to snatch a crown. (On Acton, pp. 34-5) This effect may have been deliberate, an indication of the extent to which the warrior...