The Point of Death
“Its manner was so much a part of the grim message of the play that the relentless approach of this first public execution of the lethal rapier passado began to gain an unbearable weight and moment. Tom, who had used the teachings of Maestro Capo Ferro to devise the deadly duel, felt a keenness of suspense he thought he had left on the battlefields of his youth. Will Shakespeare, who had seen the dangers of the new weaponry and written it all down in his play, was hardly heartier. Both had lost ...a deal of blood, however, and would later blame the lowering of their spirits on that fact. Ugo Stell and Dick Burbage, who had practised for hours, were hang-dog in the tiring house and only Dick's genius as an actor made him seem to shine with happiness onstage when he acted the love-struck Romeo. All the rehearsals, the warnings and the care, seemed, of a sudden, so petty in the face of the danger. Among the cunningly contrived stage deaths of past actors - even to the excesses of Kit Marlowe's Tamburlaine and Barabbas - the calculated, casual realism of this one was new and shocking to them all.MoreLess
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