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Since my father used always to speak of the 'Meseglise way' as comprising the finest view of a plain that he knew anywhere, and of the 'Guermantes way' as typical of river scenery, I had invested each of them, by conceiving them in this way as two distinct entities, with that cohesion, that unity which belongs only to the figments of the mind; the smallest detail of either of them appeared to me as a precious thing, which exhibited the special excellence of the whole, while, immediately beside them, in the first stages of our walk, before we had reached the sacred soil of one or the other, the purely material roads, at definite points on which they were set down as the ideal view over a plain and the ideal scenery of a river, were no more worth the trouble of looking at them than, to a keen playgoer and lover of dramatic art, are the little streets which may happen to run past the walls of a theatre.
In the most of his social dramas Ibsen makes his meaning transparently clear; and there is never any undue strain on the attention of the average playgoer. Especially is he a master of the difficult art of exposition.
However, it is hardly worth the while of the casual playgoer to study the structure of dramas sufficiently to appreciate fully such marvels of technique the marvels are very rare. Something might be said in favour of plays and it was said by Prosper Mérimée in which no knowledge of the previous histories of the parties is necessary.
By getting to one's seat early, even before the time when the band is indulging in that part of its performance which is said to have been peculiarly agreeable to the Shah of Persia who visited London in the seventies, we enjoy certain humours. Incidentally, it may be asked whether the ordinary playgoer exactly appreciates the position of the last rows of the stalls.
The Dowager Lady Randolph watched the young household with something of the interest with which a playgoer watches the stage. She felt sure that the explosion would come, and that a breath, a touch, might bring it on at any moment; and then what was to be the issue? Would Lucy yield? would Lucy conquer? or would the easy temper with which everybody credited Sir Tom support this trial?
This, of course, is very often the case; probably to the simple-minded playgoer when it happens there seems to be evidence that the dialogue is true. The characters say what he expects them to say therefore, that which to him it seems natural for them to say.
The main effect, apart from purely technical matters, of the new drama, that practically speaking began with the production of The Doll's House at the Great Queen Street Theatre, has been destructive; the outcome has included some brilliant plays, the drawing power of which has never been fairly and fully tested; but the most important result has been the discontentment of the ordinary playgoer with the fare which once would have delighted him.
A playgoer whose knowledge of the English stage extended over a period of fifty-five years, wrote another nice letter about "Much Ado" which was passed on to me because it had some ridiculously nice things about me in it. SAVILE CLUB, January 13, 1883. "My dear Henry, "I were an imbecile ingrate if I did not hasten to give you my warmest thanks for the splendid entertainment of last night.
In the interests of playwriters and play-actors, I wish to see the playgoer our dramatic lawgiver be educated; and I think this might be done by means of a "Royal Dramatic Academy."
"It may be all wrong," grumbled Robina. "It may be," I agreed. "But why? Does it strike you as improbable?" We were sitting in the porch, waiting for Dick to come by the white path across the field. "No," answered Robina. "It all sounds very probable. I wish it didn't." "You must remember," I continued, "that I am an old playgoer. I have sat out so many of this world's dramas.
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