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Tom Kerrigan reads
Elegy for a Shakespearean Actor
in RealAudio format.
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I
Your overdone Venetian Moor
the critics called a noisy boor.
They said your mannered Prospero
was better twenty years ago.
That last attempt of yours at Lear
most likely killed your stage career.
II
Your famous broad and massive brow
seems calm and understated now.
Those flailing arms, for once at rest,
impart the sombre subtext best.
Too bad you lack the wherewithal
to take a final curtain call.
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