play-tradition

Updated: June 9, 2025

Let us all thank God, and take heart again, and try to revive those notions of human dignity and common human sense which this story sets at nought, and see if we cannot heal that great jar in our abused natures which this chimera of the nineteenth century makes in it this night-mare of modern criticism which lies with its dead weight on all our higher art and learning this creature that came in on us unawares, when the interpretation of the Plays had outgrown the Play-tradition, when 'the Play' had outgrown 'the Player.

Delia Bacon - The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded