The Hamlet of Edwin Booth

1890 promptbook according action actors appears arch audience Badeau Booth Booth's Hamlet bows breast called chair Charles Clarke closed comes critic crosses draws drops edition effect entrance expression eyes face falls father feeling fingers forward friends front Ghost gives goes grave Guildenstern Harvard head holds Horatio January King Laertes later left hand letters lifts lines looks means moved natural never night notes once opening Ophelia pause performance play Polonius present prolonged promptbook Queen raises reaches records rest reviewers right hand rises role Rosencrantz says scene seems seen Shakespeare shoulder shows side sits slight slowly soliloquy sound speaks speech stage stands starts steps sword takes Taylor tells Theatre thought tone turns upstage upward accent voice wall Winter Garden York