"KEAN" "Solomon, the theater's prompter, was Kean's most devoted friend." "The Prince of Wales is coming." "The Count of Koefeld, Denmark's ambassador, and his wife, charming Lady of Venice." "Do you know Anna Danby, the wealthy heiress?" "She's in her box with her guardian." "Don't you see Lord Mewill yet, Anna?" "Your entrance, Kean." ""Good morrow, cousin." Romeo and Juliet." "Act I." ""Is the day so young?" Romeo and Juliet." "Act I." ""Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still," "Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will!" Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare." ""With love's light wings did" "I o'er perch these walls..." Romeo and Juliet." "Act II." ""If they do find thee, they will murder thee..." Romeo and Juliet." "Act II." ""Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye than twenty of their swords..." Romeo and Juliet." "Act II." ""This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, may prove a beauteous flower when next we meet..." Romeo and Juliet." "Act II." ""Now Romeo is beloved and loves again, Alike betwitched by the charm of looks..." Romeo and Juliet." "Act II." ""For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."" ""Thus with a kiss I die." Romeo and Juliet." "Act V." ""I will kiss thy lips;" "Haply some poison yet... doth hang on them, to make die with a restorative..." Romeo and Juliet." "Act V." "Mr. Kean, you were brilliant!" "You have surpassed yourself, my dear." "You have captured the heart of the most charming woman in the United Kingdom." "the Countess of Koefeld, of whom, it seems, we both are fond." "My compliments." "The image of beautiful woman was deeply engraved in Kean's heart." "But the difference in their social station was an insurmountable obstacle." "Every morning in Hyde Park..." "While Kean's only companion was the faithful Solomon." "They are your creditors, Kean." "I'm afraid we are trapped." "And this man, whose income is no less than that of the Prince of Wales, has to dodge creditors." "What are you thinking about, Mr. Kean?" "Who is that sailor, Sir?" "Don't tell me, Countess, that you don't remember Edmund Kean." "Why the disguise?" "To escape myself, madam." "The Countess prefers you as Romeo." "Let's go to the pub, you old clown." "¡Rum!" "That's the famous actor, Kean - my best customer." "I am commissioner in this district, and a great admirer of your talent." "Edmund Kean, the great actor." "And I am his only friend." "Morning had long since arrived..." "That's the band that is to give a performance here." "Hey, Pistol!" "Katie!" "And Tom, how are you?" "And you, my old friend Bob!" "My dear friends, in a few days I will give a benefit performance of Hamlet for old Bob and the others." "We are old friends, madam." "I used to be a travelling comedian, like them." "But you have become a great artist... the most famous in your country..." "During their meeting at the Coaly Hole tavern, a cordial relationship developed between Kean and the commissioner." "I have a passion for the theatre, Mr. Kean." "In my district I don't miss a single cockfight, nor a prizefight." "What will you do?" "I love a player!" ""Dear Mr. Kean." "Please allow me to ask a favor." "It is a question of my future, my whole life." Anna Danby" "My guardian wishes to force me to marry lord Mewill, whom" "I dislike and who is only after my money, I'm sure." "Because of this, I have left my guardian's house and will never return." "And how do you expect to get along?" "I wish to dedicate myself to the theater." "Dear child!" "You wish to cast aside your way of life in exchange for a life of tears." "I can show you the other side of the coin." "This very day the Countess of Koefeld told us that everyone knows that Kean attracts young girls." "Return home, miss, and remain calm." "I will try to reduce to nothing the slanders of this malicious man." ""Dear Mr. Kean." "Please allow me to ask a favor..."" "An hour later, at the home of the Countess." "This Kean has abducted her and is hiding her at his house." "Allow me, madam, to present you with the truth, in order to end this slander of the reputation of a young girl." "Excuse me, Count, but this is a secret a woman confides only to another woman." ""Tomorrow I play Hamlet." "Please come, and spare me a few moments." "At the foot of the orchestra is a door leading to my dressing room." "I pray that you will come to me there." Edmund Kean." "Thank you a thousand times, madam." "It is a great slander to accuse Mr. Kean of being involved with miss Danby." ""Kind souls, what, weep you, when you but behold our Caesar's vesture wounded?" "Look you here, here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors." Julius Ceasar." "Act III." "Kean, I beg you, do not drink!" "Think of your art..." "Think of your love!" "Take these to the Countess at once!" "An appreciation from Mr. Edmund Kean." "...from Mr. Edmund Kean." "Get lost!" "Tell your master that it is improper to send flowers to a married woman!" "And these are the roses I sent to my beloved!" "My roses..." "My love..." "Good Sir, if you are really who you claim to be, please pass me a handwritten note through the door." "This is truly a royal card." "Your Royal Highness, please allow me to donate your hundred pounds to the poor actors." "Let us allow Mr. Kean to get dressed, Your Majesty." "I hope that I will have the chance to converse with Your Highness." "I'll join you in a moment, my dear Count." "Your Majesty, I am in love with..." "When I saw you enter here, I knew I could no longer pretend to be mad..." "I shall applaud you nonetheless." "From your box, Your Highness?" "One should be careful with precious possessions!" "What an accursed profession!" "We are masters neither of our pleasures nor our sorrows." "All is pretence!" "Nothing is real!" "The role of Hamlet inspired his audience with admiration, and they sat open-mouthed at his performance." ""To be, or not to be: that is the question!" Hamlet." "Act III." ""The fair Ophelia!" "Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remember'd." Hamlet." "Act III." ""Get thee to a nunnery..." Hamlet." "Act III." ""...why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?" Hamlet." "Act III." ""If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry:" "be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow... thou shalt not escape calumny." Hamlet." "Act III." ""...be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny."" ""...thou shalt not escape calumny..."" "Oh, royal prince, whom I believed to be a friend or I..." "This is scandalous!" "Down with Kean!" "Throw him out!" "Spectacle!" "..." "Play..." "Kean!" "So there!" "I am not Hamlet!" "I am a poor comedian..." "My lords and gentlemen!" "The performance cannot continue." "The Sun of England has set." "The great and famous actor Edmund Kean has lost his reason." "As time went by, the countless debt claims and failures in private life took a final tol on Kean's spiritual and physical powers." "Kean lay slowly dying in the humble abode of Solomon, in a distant London suburb." "I feel that I am dying, my dear Salomon." "Read..." "Read Shakespeare to me." ""Alas, poor Yorick!" "I knew him, Horatio:" "a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy..."" "Louder, Solomon, louder." "I can't hear you." "Your voice sounds as if it is coming from the depths of a tomb." ""Where be your gibes now?" "Your gambols?" "Your songs?" "Your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?"" ""Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust;" "the dust is earth; of earth we make loam..."" ""Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay..." Hamlet." ""I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers could not..."" "I am dying..."