Excerpt from The Miscellaneous Plays of Edwin Booth, Vol. 3

This volume contains the principal plays, aside from those of Shakespeare, that were included by Edwin Booth in his customary repertory, - namely, "Richelieu," "The Fool's Revenge," "Brutus," "Ruy Blas," and "Don C?sar de Bazan." In addition to these, he occasionally presented "A New Way to Pay Old Debts," "The Iron Chest," "The Apostate," "The Lady of Lyons," and "The Stranger," - impersonating Sir Giles Overreach, Sir Edward Mortimer, Pescara, Claude Melnotte, and the sad and cynical hermit husband of Mrs. Haller. He had, in his time, played scores of parts. Old records that I possess name him as the representative of Wilford, Hemeya, Titus, Gratiano, Cassio, Laertes, Edgar, Mr. Dombey, Richmond, Charles II., Dazzle, Frank Heartall, Captain Absolute, Charles Surface, Colonel Mannering, and Young Marlowe. The list might be largely augmented. Edwin Booth, essentially a tragedian, attained to greatness in the acting of tragedy, but he reached that eminence by the practical development and discipline of his faculties in the embodiment of many and widely diversified parts as well as by the power of his genius, the charm of his personality, and the force of his character. One of his early embodiments was that of Henry II., in a play on that king's life by Messrs. Hollister and Champlin, produced at New Orleans in 1859.

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