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Now, the cost of the hampering unities should never be mentioned without also alluding to the net gain. The narrow limits set to the action of the French play resulted in an arbitrary, sometimes cruel - but also, at least with masterpieces-a benefi cent and almost miraculous simplification. For suc cess the master needed far greater expertness. The conventions being obtrusive had to be subtler for to] cration. The dramatist became indeed a theatrical prestidigitator, while remaining all the time a poet, and his audience was slowly trained to a full appre ciation of the difficulties surmounted or evaded by the playwright's skill. The revolution in Romantic Drama was wrought in the name of artistic liberty and Shakspere as its hero; witness Hugo's magnilo quent and bellicose introduction to Cromwell. One cannot but suspect, however, that the object was not liberty, but a variety of interest; and hitherto excluded theatrical effects doubtless derived from popular melodrama, - in the case of Hugo, under the cloak of the grand style.
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- Publication date2020
- ISBN 10 048388605X
- ISBN 13 9780483886056
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages140
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