| William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 380 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... | |
| Penny Gay - Literary Criticism - 2008
...Johnson said, audiences always know: 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 (1765) Another group of comedies incorporates into their plot... | |
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