...dramatic illusion, seem to disagree only within parameters set by the Poetics. While Johnson maintains that "the spectators are always in their senses, and...only a stage, and that the players are only players" ("Preface to Shakespeare," Selections, 24), Coleridge insists that the audience makes no determination...

...imaginative power necessary to follow what is happening. In point of fact, and as Johnson also spells out, "the spectators are always in their senses and know,...only a stage, and that the players are only players" (Johnson 1960 [1765]: 38). To which we need only add that the spectators also know that the whole thing...

...paper invites us to reconsider this presupposition. I Samuel Johnson's claim that theatre audiences 'are always in their senses, and know, from the first...only a stage, and that the players are only players' is typical of its period.2 When they came to discuss the large matter of the relationship between artistic...

...direction. The major problem with this sort of position is succinctly stated by Dr Johnson, who states that 'The truth is, that the spectators are always in their...only a stage, and that the players are only players. . . . The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction; if we thought murders and...

...present paper invites us to reconsider this presupposition. Samuel Johnson's claim that theatre audiences 'are always in their senses, and know, from the first...only a stage, and that the players are only players' is typical of its period.2 When they came to discuss the large matter of the relationship between artistic...

...Schwäche, wenn man die Kränkungen persönlich nahm und nicht darüber hinweg sehen konnte. Die Anwesenden „The truth is, that the spectators are always in...only a stage, and that the players are only players." (SHAPIRO: 103) Obwohl SHAPIRO diese Ansicht nur zum Teil teilt, da er meint der Zuschauer wäre in...

...position, which, while his breath is forming it into words, his understanding pronounces to be false There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in ecstasy...stage, and that the players are only players. They came to hear a certain number of lines recited with just gesture and elegant modulation. The lines...

...real world and yet is patently an 'improbable fiction'. As Dr Johnson said, audiences always know: The truth is, that the spectators are always in their...only a stage, and that the players are only players. Samuel Johnson, Preface to Shakespeare (1765) Another group of comedies incorporates into their plot...