commonly-recognized

Updated: May 10, 2025

Character-drawing is the presentment of human nature in its commonly-recognized, understood, and accepted aspects; psychology is, as it were, the exploration of character, the bringing of hitherto unsurveyed tracts within the circle of our knowledge and comprehension. In other words, character-drawing is synthetic, psychology analytic.

William Archer - Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship