ABSTRACT
The part of Iago was played at Drury-Lane on Saturday by Mr. Kean Richard, and played with admirable facility and effect. It was the most faultless of his performances, the most consistent and entire. The preservation of character was so complete, the air and manner were so much of a piece throughout, that the part seemed more like a detached scene or single trait, and of shorter duration than it usually does. The ease, familiarity, and tone of nature with which the text was delivered, were quite equal to anything that have seen in the best comic acting. Mr. Kean very properly got rid of the brutal ferocity which had been considered as the principle of this character, and then left it without any principle at all. Mr. Kean's idea seems to have been, that the most perfect callousness ought to accompany the utmost degree of inhumanity.
