The book The Changing Drama Contributions And Tendencies was written by author Henderson, Archibald, 1877-1963 Here you can read free online of The Changing Drama Contributions And Tendencies book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Changing Drama Contributions And Tendencies a good or bad book?
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The crowd heightens the intensity of his emotion, but is incapable of chang- ing its nature. We live in an enlightened age ; and the audiences for the better dramas of our epoch arc, in the vast majority, enlightened indi- THE BATTLE WITH ILLUSIONS 169 viduals. The simple fact is that these individuals do not relapse atavistically in the theater. The playhouse is not the cradle of " Judge Lynch. " The ideas, the opinions cherished by the individual spectator of to-day, are incapable of being wa...rped by the applause or the hisses of the unintelligent. With the tremendous growth of interest in the drama, the publication of plays, the increase in the number and influence of dramatic and theatric organizations, the extension of educational facili- ties of all kinds, the average spectator at the the- ater, like the average spectator at the professional ball game, has become a critic " on his own. " He is not stampeded by the noise of the theater "fan. " He sits tight in his own convictions, and retains a clear mind for the formation of his own opinion.
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