 | James E. Hirsh - English drama - 2003 - 474 pages
...taking place in the fictional location: "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."37 If a playgoer can imagine that events in the fictional world depicted onstage are taking... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - Drama - 2003 - 276 pages
...theater? Why are we there? — anyway, not for longer than it takes to answer, ". . . the spectators . . . come to hear a certain number of lines recited with just gesture and elegant modulation." It is not clear to me how seriously this straight-faced remark is meant. Its rhetoric may be that of... | |
 | Anonym - 2007 - 37 pages
...hinweg sehen konnte. Die Anwesenden „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." (SHAPIRO: 103) Obwohl SHAPIRO diese Ansicht nur zum Teil teilt, da er meint der Zuschauer wäre in... | |
 | 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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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. 
