 | Doris Gunnell - Comparative literature - 1909 - 346 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 players. They come to hear a certain number of Unes recited with iust gesture and elegant modulation. The Unes relate to some action, and an action... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - English literature - 1909 - 668 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 pages
...imagination, and we may conceive of a lapse of years as easily as of a passage of hours. Likewise, the different actions that complete a story may be in places very remote from each other: either in Athens or Sicily, when the spectator knows that he is in neither Athens nor Sicily but in... | |
 | 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... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1928 - 110 pages
...circumscriptions of terrestrial nature. . . . The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the...must be in some place; but the different actions that compleat a story may be in places very remote from each other; and where is the absurdity of allowing... | |
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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. 
