| 1909 - 498 páginas
...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... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 336 páginas
...expects drama to be credible in that way. 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... | |
| Michael Steppat - 1980 - 646 páginas
...representation is mistaken for reality, " while 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's argument is strangely unequal in that he accomplishes the demolition of the old aesthetics... | |
| Frederick Burwick - 2010 - 357 páginas
...illusion: "The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from first act to last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players." 23 Before we conclude, however, that Johnson was an utter skeptic who deined the efficacy of illusion,... | |
| Manfred Pfister - 1988 - 364 páginas
...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 - 1990 - 344 páginas
...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 - 1991 - 298 páginas
...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 - 1991 - 220 páginas
...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 - 1994 - 300 páginas
...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,... | |
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