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Can staging reach the underlying form of dramatic art?
“The glory of the scenic art is to personate passion, and the turn of passion; and the more coarse and palpable the passion is, the more hold upon the eyes and ears of the spectators the performer obviously possesses. ... 205) The abstracts are taken from Charles Lamb’s article On the tragedies of Shakespeare, considered with reference to their fitness for Stage Representation.
Lamb argues that the psychological depth and complexity of Shakespeare’s characters only becomes lucid by reading his plays. Virtually seeing them on stage blinds the spectators views from the underlying form, from the remarkable insights into the broadness of each character. ... The genius of Shakespeare cannot, in his opinion, be placed into the hands of some “actors” who think to have a “mind congenial with the poet’s”.
On the other hand, some argue that the interpretation of Shakespeare by the greatest actors through time filled his works with matter.
Approximate Word count = 797
Approximate Pages = 3.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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