![]() ![]() acting, performing) is “to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature: to show virtue her feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.” 1 In this way, drama can show us what we are and what we might be, and point the way to what we probably should be. ![]() It is an extraordinary phenomenon-a powerful magic.Īs Hamlet says in Shakespeare’s play, speaking to the actors, the purpose of playing (i.e. This, coupled with the poetic expertise of the author, is probably to a large extent why the Shakespeare plays are so successful and meaningful, and continue to be so from generation to generation, nationally and internationally. It is in fact the same wisdom or truth that underlies all nature, all life. Like the geometry that underlies an architectural edifice such as a classical temple or Gothic cathedral, so this wisdom underlies the plays. This wisdom provides the basic structure of the plays. ![]() ![]() Most of the Shakespeare plays enshrine not only a profound philosophy but also a remarkable wisdom. “For the principles, fountains, causes, and forms of motions, that is, the appetites and passions of every kind of matter, are the proper objects of philosophy.” Francis Bacon, Thoughts on the Nature of Things. ![]()
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