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Title: On Actors and Typos
Review: Mr. Lewes book is a gem--he was a keenly-observant Victorian theater-goer whose detailed analysis of the craft of acting is as good as I've ever read. HOWEVER--- this edition of his book, which I assume has long been out-of-print, is unreadable. It has, according to a disclaimer inside the front cover, been produced by robotically scanning an old copy of the book. The disclaimer says there may be "a few typos" and some "missed pages". (Missed PAGES?) This is an understatement-- the punctuation in this edition is haywire and the spelling is almost as bad (hilariously, in some cases-- on one page Shakespeare is printed "Quakspere"!). At first I thought I could put up with the errors, but there are so many of them that you get no sense of the flow of Mr. Lewes' thought and no pleasure in the reading. I ended up sending it back. I had purchased this edition with the idea of giving it to an actor friend-- it would have been a very sad gift!
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