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Excerpt from Community Drama and Pageantry
In certain plays the scene opens revealing an interior, but this is a different matter from conceiving the major portion of the action to be within doors.habitation for anything the dramatist wished them to see. It was precisely because the dramatists were ignor ing the limitations of their stage that Sir Philip Sidney launched his famous complaint.1 In the end, however, the dramatists triumphed, because they were also poets. What the stage productions lacked the poet's word magic achieved. For instance, no one will doubt that the pro duction of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Globe fell far short of the dramatist's conception. Indeed Shakespeare himself has spoken, in the choruses of Henry the Fifth, of this gulf between what the poet's eye can see and the stage perform. Although Shakespeare was master of all the technical side of drama, as well as poet, he did not hesitate to ignore the limitations of his stage while doing all that was possible to make up for these handicaps by his mastery of word painting.
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