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Show HANDBOOK FOR TEACHERS OF INTERPRETATION 134 not words, yet her "Nothing, nothing, my Lord," certainly did not deserve great so payment a as her death, therefore her end is pathetic. Although Lear brings his own death upon himself, yet his age, his final attainment and comprehension of the true joy of life, all mitigate to give a touch of pathos to an otherwise deserved end. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, both deserve all that life brings to them, yet the master, Shakespeare, allows a bit of pity to soften our feelings, by permitting the former to manifest a supreme cour age in the end when all he had pinned his faith to failed him, and by letting us see the tragedy of Lady Macbeth's will, overcome by otherwise peaceful sleep. Pathos, again let us urge, must ring true. Take care that the high pitched tremulo, which, of old, we were trained to use in "Give me three grains of corn mother, only three grains of corn," finds no place in our pathos. The giving up to the inevitable, the very re laxation, the absolute futility which all go to make a situation pathetic, will surely relax the body-the muscles of the throat as well as the muscles of the body-and lower pitch will be the re sult. Always ring true. SUGGESTED SELECTIONS-PATHOS To Touch a (Purpose: Elementary: Sympathetic Chord) PAGE I Have a Rendezvous with Death Alan Seeger 104 ' The Lost Kiss James Whitcomb Riley 128 Vive la France! Charlotte Holmes Crawford 211 Lew Sarett 80 Four Little Foxes Advanced: The Blind Girl of Castel-Cuille . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Good-Night, Babette!" Glory The Finding of Fingall '. . . . 22 Austin Dobson 83 John Luther Long 267 Gilbert Parker 346 . .. |
