This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...But the plot--which is the movement--means the tricks and devices of stage-craft; the plot requires the actor, the soul of the play means study and meditation. When Hamlet declaims the soliloquy he talks pure literature and not drama; but when the actor pours poison into the King's ear he is playing an ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...But the plot--which is the movement--means the tricks and devices of stage-craft; the plot requires the actor, the soul of the play means study and meditation. When Hamlet declaims the soliloquy he talks pure literature and not drama; but when the actor pours poison into the King's ear he is playing an illusive trick on the people in the stalls. The soliloquy is just as great when read in your own sitting-room. This is why the secret of the play's worth lies in its suggestive power. All else is superficial and incidental. For the most part audiences behave as if the dramatic tricks were the realities, and the literature of a play its stuffing--as if the nourishment were not in the meat, but in the onions and the bread-crumbs. Much depends on the size of the auditorium and the quality of the play, but as a rule the brains of an audience are in the stalls, the stomach in the pit, and the heart in the gallery. The balcony is the most neutral part of the house; the inexperienced and the respectable provincial sit here by preference. The playhouse is a social crucible where people mingle without being mixed. Smiles and laughter are here the signs and the sounds by which the student of human nature may perceive the social grades that exist between the stalls, the dress-circle, the balcony, and the gallery. Below sit the society sphinxes, who stare at the stage in vapid serenity, but never laugh--it is their province. The laughter upstairs is always somewhat hoarse and horsy. The hilarity is often accompanied by wheezy coughing, aggravated by hysterical contagion and bad air. Mirth amongst the people is torrential. Indeed, a theatre is a cauldron of emotional witch-broth; the things that are done pertain to magic. The old actors appear youthful, the...
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