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“Therefore the music of a well-ordered age is calm and cheerful, and so is its government. The music of a restive age is excited and fierce, and its government is perverted. The music of a decaying state is sentimental and sad, and its government is imperiled.”
Hermann Hesse • The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel
His hypothesis is that it originated as an adaptation of improvisatory poetic forms in which a soloist led and responded to a chorus (49a9–14); the distinction between chorus and chorus-leader opens up the possibility of dialogue, and hence of drama. The leader thus became the first actor;
Aristotle • Poetics (Penguin Classics S.)
The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
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Henry Oliver • Notes Towards an Applied Literature
Nineteen twenty-three was one of Broadway’s brightest years. John Barrymore played Hamlet just a few blocks away from where his sister Ethel was appearing in Romeo and Juliet. Elmer Rice’s The Adding Machine and Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author also opened. Most critics cited Galsworthy’s Loyalties as the best play of the season.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
