 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 196 pages
...be applied to clinch this matter : ' The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the...only a stage, and that the players are only players.' Johnson was not in the least likely to fall into that solemn error which supposes that the populace,... | |
 | Gerhard Richard Lomer, Margaret Ashmun - English language - 1914 - 360 pages
...SHAW: Preface to Brieux' Three Plays. 9. "The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the...only a stage and that the players are only players." SAMUEL JOHNSON : Preface to Shakespeare. dramatic action is the doing of something really significant."... | |
 | Herbert Morse - Dramatists, English - 1915 - 320 pages
...reality." The answer to that, of course, is that the spectators are supposed to be in their senses, and know from the first act to the last that the stage is only a stage, and the players, players. It would be impossible to write an historical play at all, except of the most... | |
 | Herbert Morse - Dramatists, English - 1915 - 320 pages
...reality." The answer to that, of course, is that the spectators are supposed to be in their senses, and know from the first act to the last that the stage is only a stage, and the players, players. It would be impossible to write an historical play at all, except of the most... | |
 | Hans Meier - 1916 - 124 pages
...Zuschauer wirken könnte, verwirft Johnson. The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the...stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.41) Die Frage wurde aktuell, als man dem Erfolg von Gays „Beggars Opera" die gesteigerte... | |
 | George Summey - English language - 1919 - 294 pages
...HG Wells, What Is Coming? (p. 81). For "the truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage Initial Lower-Case, 161 is only a stage and the players only players": "the delight proceeds from our... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - English literature - 1926 - 666 pages
...Shakespeare's neglect of the unities : "The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the...only a stage and that the players are only players. . . . The different actions that complete a story may be in places very remote from each other ; and... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 498 pages
...brains that can make the stage a field. The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the...stage, and that the players are only players. They came to hear a certain number of lines recited with just gesture and elegant modulation. The lines... | |
 | Frederick Burwick - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 357 pages
...illusion: "The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from first act to last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players." 23 Before we conclude, however, that Johnson was an utter skeptic who deined the efficacy of illusion,... | |
 | Kent Cartwright - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 301 pages
...such criticism, Michael Shapiro contrasts a Johnsonian view of the "spectators' constant awareness 'that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players' " with a Coleridgean "ideal response" involving the spectator's "rapt absorption in the work of art,... | |
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The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses and know from the first act to the last that the stage is only a stage and that the players are only players. 
