THE THEATRES.
EXTRAORDINARY interest is excited among playgoers by the reappear- ance of CHARLES KEAN before a London audience : he is advertised to play Hamlet, at Drury Lane, on Monday. We believe this is con- sidered, both by the actor and his friends, as his grand debut ; former efforts being regarded rather as experiments. He now comes before the town a finished tragedian, in the prime of life, with all the vigour and fire of youth matured by study and practice, and without any of the drawbacks incidental to a first appearance. Moreover, he has the advantage of a strong prepossession in his favour, arising from the impression be made when he last performed in London, and the flattering reports of his success in Dublin and other places : add to this the prestige of his father's name, and the public desire for some new thing to stir the stagnant atmosphere of the theatrical world, and we have a combination of propitious circumstances that any debutant might covet.
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