Thompson Westcott scrapbooks of the History of the Philadelphia Stage
History of the Philadelphia Stage, Between the Years 1749 and 1855. By Charles Durang. Volume 2. Arranged and illustrated by Thompson Westcott, 1868

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Oct 14, 2022 amoah Oct 13, 2022 amoah Apr 30, 2020 University of Pennsylvania Libraries	p. 220 181. CHAPTER EIGHTH. Sketch of Junius Brutus Booth continued---His celebrated contest with Kean in "Othello"---Re- marks on his style of acting. About 1817 the celebrated trial of talent be- tween Kean and Booth took place at Drury Lane. As this contest has been much dwelt upon and variously described it may be appo- site to our purpose to give some of its details here. This interesting exhibition of theatrical championship may be declared to have consti- tuted an epoch in the lives of the two trage- dians. It was said in England and reiterated here that Booth's manner was an ingenious imitation of that of Kean---" his person being about the same size and his voice adapting it- self to the same tones and imitating the same abrupt transitions in intonations and even ac- tion thus strikingly assimilating in nearly all points it may not therefore be wondered at that when the two actors were apart from each other Booth by the trick and fashion of Kean's style should impose successfully upon the public for the spirit of yhe latter." Thus did Kean's friends discourse. Booth having suddenly arisen at a rival theatre and possess- ing all the attributes which characterized Kean's excellencies gave cause for partizan ex-	p. 220 181. CHAPTER EIGHTH. Sketch of Junius Brutus Booth continued---His celebrated contest with Kean in "Othello"---Re- marks on his style of acting.

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