Ludwig Tieck

“ Oh, when you love art as much as I do, it is no trouble at all! — Just now a very clever idea occurred to me concerning the cat's boots, one in which the genius of the actor is to be admired. — You see, at the outset he was a cat; so he had to discard his natural apparel in order to assume the appropriate guise of a cat. But then he has to appear as a hunter (or so I assume, since every one refers to him as such and no one is surprised at his appearance) ; an inept actor would no doubt have worn a hunting costume: — but — what would have happened to our illusion? ”

“ How many of our stage bawlers, who are lauded to the heavens whenever they play heroic rôles, would have mobilized the entire battery of their talents in the hope of eliciting the mob's applause? Not so our great and original artist. ”

“ Indeed, I would like some day to see this unique individual play the rôle of King Lear or Wallenstein with the same snarling, whining and mewing tone. I am confident such an interpretation would be unprecedented, and would contrast strongly with the performances of those bawlers who can only ever play the tragic rôles with so-called vigor and energy.
Fischer
That's just what we need! But this is insufferable: as soon as our tormentor up there on the stage falls silent, this connoisseur takes over. One is as bad as the other! — The curtain's rising. ”