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When a reader tries to enter a play by Shakespeare as if he were an actor, he must respond in his imagination with his whole being. He must seek an ‘act’ that, with Shakespeare’s words, will ‘give life’ to the text.
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© 1981 John Russell Brown
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Brown, J.R. (1981). Plays for Actors. In: Discovering Shakespeare. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16611-4_5
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