The Renascence of the English Drama: Essays, Lectures, And Fragments ...
The Renascence of the English Drama: Essays, Lectures, And Fragments ...
Jones Henry Arthur
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So long as an audience is interested or excited, or imposed upon by scenery or dresses or stage -effect, it is very careless of the actual words that are spoken. If the language is not glaringly false or inappropriate, an audience does not trouble its head upon the matter. But when it does trouble its head to pay attention to the language, it is at- tracted by what is forced, smart, meretricious, falsely- Digitized by Google xi The Dramatic Outlook 1 8 1 splendid, rather than by what is simple,... severe, and natural. The literary tastes of an average audience may be gauged by the fact that no book or poem written above a certain level of literary skill ever attains that wide, immediate popularity which is a necessary accompaniment of stage success — those books and periodicals which have the widest sudden circulation are rarely of any lasting literary value ; they are at best non-literary. Further, our fine mother-tongue seems lately to have lost, and to be still losing, much of its native dignity and music and power.
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