| Title: | The Borgia Ring; or, A Legend of Stonehenge |
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| Description: | The Borgia Ring; or, A Legend of Stonehenge by Angelo R. Slous. |
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| 1st Performance: | Jan 24, 1859 |
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| Theatre: | Adelphi |
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| Source: | The Illustrated London News, Feb 12, 1859, p. 165 |
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| Review: | The Illustrated London News, Feb 12, 1859, p. 166 |
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SCENE FROM "THE BORGIA RING" AT THE.
ADELPHI THEATRE.
The stage of the new Adelphi Theatre affords improved facilities for those scenic
effects by which the management of Mr. Webster has been distinguished. Advantage was
very properly taken of the opportunity on presenting a new drama to the audience. It
is likely, we think, that the play of "The Borgia Ring" was accepted for the sake of
the one scene that forms the subject of our illustration. The picture speaks for itself,
and, as it is an exact representation
of the stage-scene, our readers may form some notion of the capabilities of the arena
that allows of such a display of vastness in the columns of the wrecked Druidical temple
and so grand a perspective in the starry sky. The point of the scene taken is where the
guilty hero of the story is pointing out to his victim the ready-dug grave that he had
designed for her in case of her refusing his criminal demand--to surrender for destruction
the will by which he was disinherited. Modern audiences require pictorial
illustrations to dramatic arguments, and Mr. Webster will do well to select the sites of
celebrated places for such purposes. They are not only pleasing but instructive and confer
an air of reality on the story and business of theatrical representations. The scene before
us is well worth a visit from the public on its own account, quite apart from the merits
of the piece in which it occurs.
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