The Elizabethan Theatre
|F the picture of the Elizabethan Theatre in the story of the development of the theatre in England is in any way a true one, both audiences and actors must have been tough guys. Even then the stars probably had their devo-~ tees, but the ham actor must have received short shrift. After all if you have
braved the elements, standing in the mud amid the stench of humanity in the mass, you are in no mood for the — secondrate. We sometimes forget thet Shakespeare in those days was a
living drama. Even if the conflict of emotions was wrapped up at times in the trappings of a strange people, it still spoke with the voice of those for whom it was written. We do not make Shakespeare contemporary by playing him in
modern dress, but he will always be popular whenever we present him as good theatre and not as the performance of some esoteric rite.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 363, 7 June 1946, Page 14
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160The Elizabethan Theatre New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 363, 7 June 1946, Page 14
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