 | Carol Shiner Wilson, Joel Haefner - 1994 - 356 Seiten
...against what he regards as the stage's prioritizing of body over mind: "What we see upon a stage is body and bodily action; what we are conscious of in reading...is almost exclusively the mind, and its movements" (300). While for Lamb "the sight actually destroys the faith" ( -too) , for Baillie the act of looking... | |
 | Diana E. Henderson - 2006 - 324 Seiten
...overweigh all that beautiful compromise which we make in reading. . . . What we see upon the stage is body and bodily action; what we are conscious of in reading is almost exclusively the mind, and its movements.69 Coleridge confidently invokes history as the guarantor for his interpretation: "as we... | |
 | Cormac Power - 2008 - 228 Seiten
...actually seeing the plays enacted. This distinction is crucial, for "What we see upon a stage is body and bodily action; what we are conscious of in reading is almost exclusively the mind" (1865: 524). Physical enactment can only impinge upon the essence of Shakespeare's poetic and a-temporal... | |
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What we see upon a stage is body and bodily action ; what we are conscious of in reading is almost exclusively the mind and its movements : and this, I think, may sufficiently account for the very different sort of delight with which the same play so... 
