 | Manfred Pfister - Drama - 1988 - 364 pages
...he lives in the days of Cleopatra . . . 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.12 In other words, the dramatic fiction does not set out to deceive the audience by pretending... | |
 | David Carroll - Art - 1990 - 344 pages
...passage from his "Preface to Shakespeare": "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." 5. I have argued that there is a common metaphysical grounding for the Essay on Criticism and the Essay... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - Drama - 1991 - 298 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...only a stage, and that the players are only players < Co/2 3 1 > . They come to hear a certain number of lines recited with just gesture and elegant modulation.... | |
 | Rowland McMaster - Allusions in literature - 1991 - 220 pages
...unities seems also to apply to novels: 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 .... It will be asked how the drama moves, if it is not credited. It is credited with all the credit... | |
 | Michael Shapiro - Child actors - 1994 - 300 pages
...kind of dual consciousness described by Samuel Johnson: "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." 44 If Johnson is correct, spectators would not only have shared Cleopatra's fear, as Davies claims,... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...having burst the bubble to his own satisfaction, the spectators 'are always in their senses', know that 'the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players'. That reductivist position turns into a dismissive account of the theatre as a whole: a play is merely... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - Drama - 1998 - 236 pages
...Johnson stresses the ficri tiousness of Shakespearean drama, and when he insists that the spectators 'know, from the first act to the last, that the stage...only a stage, and that the players are only players', he is denying that the play asks us to take it for real life.6 Coleridge thinks the spectator - temporarily... | |
 | William Bowman Piper - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 212 pages
...Johnson asserts "the truth" about dramatic sensibility: "The spectators are always in their senses and know from the first act to the last, that the stage is only the stage, and that the players are only players." Johnson develops the truth of dramatic response,... | |
 | Michael Simpson - Poetry - 1998 - 500 pages
...parameters set by the Poetics. While Johnson maintains 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" ("Preface to Shakespeare," Selections, 24), Coleridge insists that the audience makes no determination... | |
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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. 
