| Michael Simpson - 1998 - 500 Seiten
...dramatic illusion, seem to disagree only within parameters set by the Poetics. While Johnson maintains that "the spectators are always in their senses, and...only a stage, and that the players are only players" ("Preface to Shakespeare," Selections, 24), Coleridge insists that the audience makes no determination... | |
| Roger D. Sell - 2000 - 372 Seiten
...imaginative power necessary to follow what is happening. In point of fact, and as Johnson also spells out, "the spectators are always in their senses and know,...only a stage, and that the players are only players" (Johnson 1960 [1765]: 38). To which we need only add that the spectators also know that the whole thing... | |
| Stanley Wells - 2002 - 240 Seiten
...paper invites us to reconsider this presupposition. I Samuel Johnson's claim that theatre audiences 'are always in their senses, and know, from the first...only a stage, and that the players are only players' is typical of its period.2 When they came to discuss the large matter of the relationship between artistic... | |
| Jerrold Levinson - 2005 - 844 Seiten
...direction. The major problem with this sort of position is succinctly stated by Dr Johnson, who states that 'The truth is, that the spectators are always in their...only a stage, and that the players are only players. . . . The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction; if we thought murders and... | |
| Catherine M. S. Alexander - 2003 - 504 Seiten
...present paper invites us to reconsider this presupposition. Samuel Johnson's claim that theatre audiences 'are always in their senses, and know, from the first...only a stage, and that the players are only players' is typical of its period.2 When they came to discuss the large matter of the relationship between artistic... | |
| Anonym - 2007 - 37 Seiten
...Schwäche, wenn man die Kränkungen persönlich nahm und nicht darüber hinweg sehen konnte. Die Anwesenden „The truth is, that the spectators are always in...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 - 2008 - 380 Seiten
...position, which, while his breath is forming it into words, his understanding pronounces to be false There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in ecstasy...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 - 2008
...real world and yet is patently an 'improbable fiction'. As Dr Johnson said, audiences always know: The truth is, that the spectators are always in their...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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