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Updated: May 6, 2025
Therefore, to attempt a description of their attractions would probably be superfluous; and, indeed, the style of the pieces produced is varied according to the ideas of the speculators, the taste of the managers, or the abilities of the performers, who, if not "the best actors in the world," are ready to play either "tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, scene individable, or poem unlimited."
Tragedy, comedy, historical-pastoral, pastoral-comical remember the large-minded list of the greatest-minded poet all are good, if wholesome and will be wholesome if the public continue to take the healthy interest in theatres which they are now taking.
Shakspeare himself, it would appear, did but laugh at the petty endeavours of critics to find out divisions and subdivisions of species, and to hedge in what had been so separated with the most anxious care; thus the pedantic Polonius in Hamlet commends the players, for their knowledge of "tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical- historical, tragical-comical, historical-pastoral, scene-undividable, or poem unlimited."
They almost thought of inviting him to their Browning afternoons, but decided that he would not appreciate the feminine company, though he did so often have a number of the 'Censor' to discuss it with Dolores, whenever they met him. The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral. Hamlet.
And, at the outset, let me say that I want you to judge the stage at its best. I do not intend to suggest that only the plays of Shakespeare are tolerable in the theatre to people of taste and intelligence. The drama has many forms tragedy, comedy, historical-pastoral, pastoral-comical and all are good when their aim is honestly artistic. Now, what is the art of acting?
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