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  • The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.

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    'Prologue spoken at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury Lane' (1747)

  • The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.

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    William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, Mr Theobald (Lewis) (1805). “Dedication of the players. Preface of the players. Pope's preface. Theobald's preface. Hanmer's preface. Warburton's preface. Johnson's preface. Advertisement by Steevens. Capell's”, p.112

  • The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear.

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    Samuel Johnson (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].”, p.222
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Samuel Johnson

  • Born: September 18, 1709
  • Died: December 13, 1784
  • Occupation: Writer
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