Forbes-Robertson

Forbes-Robertson played Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek with us on our second

McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Various

I sent it to Forbes-Robertson, who was then a popular actor, with the reputation of having artistic inclinations, and when he returned it to me after three or four months, to Charles Frohman.

The Summing Up Maugham, W Somerset 1938

Forbes-Robertson put a touch of Leontes into it, a part which some years later he was to play magnificently, and through the subtle indication of consuming and insanely suspicious jealousy made Claudio's offensive conduct explicable at least.

The Story of My Life Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928 1908

“I have written to the Bancrofts in favor of Forbes-Robertson for Bassanio.”

The Story of My Life Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928 1908

I then played Beatrice for the last time and Forbes-Robertson played his old part of Claudio.

The Story of My Life Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928 1908

It was Forbes-Robertson, however, for me, and I think for all the playgoing London of the time, that gave the play its chief value by making us startlingly aware, through the poignancy of his personality, of what one might call the voice of the modern conscience.

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

"I never gave you aught," as Forbes-Robertson said it, seemed to mean:

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

Were one asked what aspects of Hamlet does Forbes-Robertson specially embody, I should say, in the first place, his princeliness, his ghostliness, then his cynical and occasionally madcap humour, as where, at the end of the play-scene, he capers behind the throne in a terrible boyish glee.

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

In this scene, too, as in others, Forbes-Robertson makes it clear that that final tribute of Fortinbras was fairly won.

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

All my life I seem to have been asking my friends, those I loved best, those who valued the dearest, the kindest, the greatest, and the strongest in our strange human life, to come with me and see Forbes-Robertson die in

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906