CHARLES KEAN, who has been engaged for a dozen nights
to exhibit his peculiar manner of playing tragedy, at the Haymarket, appeared on Monday in Hamlet : he was loudly greeted by a pretty full house ; and his explosions of rant, and other " points " of his performance, were responded to by those who mistake noise, vehemence, and sudden transitions, for the effects of fine acting. Mrs. WARNER played the Queen impressively and gracefully, as she ala ays does ; FARREN was Polonius, and Miss JULIA BENNETT rehearsed the part of Ophelia as well as she was able : the other performers, too, did their best; but such a representation of Hamlet is not desirable. Madame VESTRIS and CHARLES MATHEwS leave this theatre at the end of next week, to fulfil their provincial engagements ; but various novelties are promised.
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