...concerns of one Person distinguishable great above the rest. — JEREMY COLLIER. Remarks upon the Relapse. The truth is that the spectators are always in their...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...

...There is a sentence in the Preface to Shakespeare which might well be applied to clinch this matter : ' The truth is, that the spectators are always in their...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,...

...finds himself committed to plays that have no endings." GB SHAW: Preface to Brieux' Three Plays. 9. "The truth is that the spectators are always in their...only a stage and that the players are only players." SAMUEL JOHNSON: Preface to Shakespeare. dramatic action is the doing of something really significant."...

...the resemblance of 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...

...the resemblance of 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...

...Gedanken, daß das triumphierende Böse demoralisierend auf die Zuschauer wirken könnte, verwirft Johnson. The truth is, that the spectators are always in their...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...

...with lower-case. It is— or shall I write, "it may be"?— HG Wells, What Is Coming? (p. 81). For "the truth is that the spectators are always in their...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...

...Who wrote, for example, with his usual good sense, concerning Shakespeare's neglect of the unities : "The truth is that the spectators are always in their...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...

...the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature. There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in extacy should count the clock, or why an hour should not...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...

...he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more. . . . The truth is, that the spectators are always in their...only a stage, and that the players are only players. . . . Where is the absurdity of allowing that space to represent Athens, and then Sicily, which was...