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<title>M1-8, 3 of 10. [Anon: For the long poem is luminous, radiant...]. Holograph. In [Articles, essays, fiction and reviews], vol. 8 [1938-39], pp. 106-134. 15p.</title>
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<l>For <del>a</del> the long poem is <del>lit up</del> luminous, <del>irradi</del> radiant.</l>
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<l><del>Yet</del> <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-espe" key="Spenser, Edmund">Spenser</rs> standing on the threshold of the great</l>
<l>room is half in shadow half in light. He is not <del>a</del></l>
<l><del>fully realised: <del>it</del> <add place="inline">He</add> is still anonymous, <del>He</del> in that he</del></l>
<l><del>does not <del>embody</del> <del>confine emotions to the</del> give</del></l>
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<l>is still anonymous, in that he cannot confine</l>
<l>emotions within one place. He must symbolise;</l>
<l>exteriorise: jealousy is not a passion to be spoken;</l>
<l>He cannot convey jealousy by <del>the speaking voice He must</del></l>
<l><del>make jealousy an</del> actual words from an actual</l>
<l>mouth. He must make jealousy abstract, a symbol.</l>
<l>He <del>ignores</del> <del>cannot</del> cannot speak
<choice>
<sic>thro'</sic>
<corr>through</corr>
</choice> the mouth of the</l>
<l>individual. The single is <add place="below">still in shadow</add>. Yet, the other half of him is in the</l>
<l>light He is aware of his [ancestors?] as <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-gcha" key="Chaucer, Geoffrey">Chaucer</rs> was not, nor</l>
<l><rs type="person" xml:id="psn-wlan" key="Langland, William">Langland</rs>, nor <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-tmal" key="Malory, Thomas">Malory</rs>. His is no longer a wandering voice,</l>
<l>but the voice of a man
<choice>
<sic>praitig</sic>
<corr>practising</corr>
</choice> an art, asking for</l>
<l>recognition,, <del>resenting his</del> & bitterly cautious of</l>
<l><del>de</del> <del>his own</del> <del>that the world</del> of the world's scorn</l>
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<l>Had to the common voice, the voice of the</l>
<l>English commoner, the mummer, the maker, the man at the</l>
<l>back door – Spenser had heard it–––</l>
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<l><del>When <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-hlat">Latimer</rs></del></l>
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<l>It was at half past two in the afternoon,</l>
<l>that the trumpets sounded & the flag went up <del>on the</del></l>
<l>& the <del>audience paid their</del> audience accumulated. The</l>
<l>playhouse was open to the sky. <del>The audience paid</del></l>
<l>a <del>penny or twopence.</del> <del>They crowded the</del> The playhouse was</l>
<l>the walls were painted; there was no scenery; but the</l>
<l>players were nobly dressed, according to one spectator, in</l>
<l>the cast off robes of the nobles sold by their servants.</l>
<l>For a penny <del>the</del> <del>apprentices & nob</del> audience
<choice>
<sic>cd.</sic>
<corr>could</corr>
</choice> see</l>
<l><rs type="literary-work" xml:id="lit-tamb" key="Tamburlaine">Tamburlaine</rs>: the trumpets sounded; the [wherries?]</l>
<l><del>crowd</del> The river was <del>being</del> covered with wherries</l>
<l>bring the audience across. <del>These</del> <del>The</del> <del>What</del></l>
<l><del>If the pl</del> What other amusements were there</l>
<l>for the <del>captain & the</del> gentleman & the court, the</l>
<l>[illeg.] a [boar?], & the number of captains & soldiers</l>
<l>about London – only <quote source="#" rend="inline">'gaming, following of harlots</quote></l>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline">drinking – unless they were ferried over the river</quote></l>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline">to see the play.'</quote> The audience came from the</l>
<l>crowded, festering little streets, round <rs type="place" xml:id="pla-stpa" key="St Paul's Cathedral">St Pauls</rs>. The</l>
<l><del>trumpets sounded;</del> they paid a penny or two pence. They</l>
<l>crowded round the stage; & then the curtain rose,</l>
<l>& they <del>[feasted?]</del> often all their [illeg.] of [illeg.] they <add place="below">heard</add>,</l>
<l><del>upon the</del> <del>return</del> upon <del>the splendour</del> of Tamburlaine:</l>
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<l>Brother Cosroe, I find myself much aggrieved</l>
<l>Yet insufficient to express the same; </l>
<l>For it requires a great & thundering speech:</l>
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<l><del>The silence is broken;</del> at last the voice speaks [fi?]</l>
<l><del>It</del> <del>It</del> The Kings & Emperors are on the stage.</l>
<l>The world is made visible <del>the</del></l>
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<l><del>For us</del> This is a play fanned by some</l>
<l>extraordinary [hearts?] into being – an</l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>huperbole</sic>
<corr>hyperbole</corr>
</choice>, a [illeg.]: at last, there is</l>
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<l>every life, complete, <del>beat</del> <del>beating behind</del> And the</l>
<l>mounting image, the wind & [illeg.], still blow out</l>
<l>the speech, even in the printed book.</l>
<l><del>There is</del> <del>The</del> It is crude. The poet is anonymous.</l>
<l><del>This</del> <del>And yet what a</del> All is now spoken by</l>
<l>each actor. There are no abstractions.</l>
<l><del>All is realised:</del> the pomp & the masks & the</l>
<l>great swollen figures; <del>as if</del> Nothing is left</l>
<l>lurking in the shades. <del>Still</del> <del>Even</del> The figures are</l>
<l>palpable, coloured, strident. Is it</l>
<l>something has set in motion, not knights & ladies,</l>
<l>but the crude, jagged outlines of real</l>
<l>men. [And for?] there is a bombast & a splendour,</l>
<l>the great painted wigs & their [illeg.] [logs?]</l>
<l>are <del>as</del> still damp, un carved. Laughter,</l>
<l>like great moths brought by the [illeg.]:</l>
<l><del>But</del> It is momentuous, [naked?]; resonant:</l>
<l>And the great names clash like brass.</l>
<l>Resound <del>& [comedy?]</del> No one is delicately</l>
<l>depicted. There is no shadow: but</l>
<l>all is gold & purple. And yet</l>
<l>the [currency?], the trumpets, fill the words: the</l>
<l>[abeard?], the <choice>
<sic>huperbole</sic>
<corr>hyperbole</corr>
</choice>: this is a mood, a</l>
<l>splendid rhapsody: <del>filled</del> blown like a</l>
<l>with [folio?], in their [hur?], in suffering; but</l>
<l>yet – <del>for there is no quarter, no stalling;</del></l>
<del>
<l>suddenly, in the stress of emotion; a</l>
<l>another & yet, for all its stridency, its</l>
</del>
<l>pomp, all the height of splendour, how</l>
<l>the poet can cut a gash in the fabric:</l>
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<l>So poets say, my Lord</l>
<l>And tis a pretty thing to be a poet</l>
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<l>Could he stop, he would suffer. But there is no</l>
<l>[poem?], no shade as he travels. The [assess?]</l>
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<l>And yet the tragic motive <del>is</del> broods over their</l>
<l>[acts?] & trampling vanguards; over their multitudes</l>
<l>confusion & splendour. Are we not entranced into a</l>
<l>sense of tragedy ? Do we not foretell the</l>
<l>[funereal?] [illeg.]? Such tremendous blows</l>
<l>the smiling & the kneeling king, the pride of the</l>
<l>rampant emperor knock. And they,</l>
<l>as in in the [hoal?] [timely?] at one moment</l>
<l>still and heavy from the [firmament?] into</l>
<l>press of their [being] & splendour we hear:</l>
<l>this art is keeping somehow: a break in the</l>
<l>[struggle?]; a sign that the <del>auth</del> dramatist</l>
<l>is separating from the anonymous play maker:</l>
<l>a sign that there is as yet no little</l>
<l>language: so that he cannot amalgamate</l>
<l>[flow?] naturally; <del>from</del> <del>the</del> diction from</l>
<l>rhetoric, & speak, <del>with</del> simply.</l>
<l><rs type="person" xml:id="psn-tmal" key="Marlowe, Christopher">Marlowe</rs> was swept away by his characters.</l>
<l>For, the audience, the shopkeepers, soldiers, [align?]</l>
<l>crowding to the stage, <del>f</del> <del>spurred</del></l>
<l><del>spurr</del> implored not [stillness?], but movement,</l>
<l>[illeg.]. <del>We</del> The play is still</l>
<l>partly the work of the audience: of the</l>
<l>undifferentiated mass. It is not yet a</l>
<l>separate book. It is imprinted by the common</l>
<l>voice, demanding great names, many</l>
<l>multitudes, a whole clamour on</l>
<l>stage, not reflection, not the <del>brooding</del></l>
<l>subtlety of one soul. An orgy, a</l>
<l>[shapioly?], a spendid [illeg.]:</l>
</p>
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<l>with</l>
<l>tremendous</l>
<l>clash &</l>
</add>
</p>
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<l>38</l>
</add>
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<p>
<l>our souls, whose</l>
<l>faculties can</l>
<l>comprehend,</l>
</p>
<p>
<l>The wonderous</l>
<l>architecture of the</l>
<l>world,</l>
</p>
<p>
<l>And measure</l>
<l>every wandering</l>
<l>planet's</l>
<l>course,</l>
</p>
<p>
<l>Still climbing</l>
<l>after</l>
<l>knowledge infinite</l>
</p>
<p>
<l>Will us to</l>
<l>wear ourselves</l>
<l>& never</l>
<l>[rest?] ––</l>
</p>
</quote>
</add>
</p>
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<l>our souls are still the souls of many;</l>
<l>& so the single statement falls out of place</l>
</p>
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<l>77</l>
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<l>It is as if he was trying to do two things at the same time.</l>
<l>It is [irrelevant?]: a poem; a break; a mixture of two different [illeg.]</l>
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<l>He was making it possible for the commoners & the</l>
<del>
<l><del>b</del> nobles to come together in one house; <del>to</del></l>
<l>listen <del>to the same play.</del> <del>to listen to a play</del></l>
<l><del>The playhouse was built before <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-espe" key="Spenser, Edmund">Spenser</rs> died.</del></l>
<l>At last the mummers & the [madrigals?] were given a</l>
<l>lodging a centre. The playhouse was built</l>
</del>
<l>to listen to the same play. Before Spenser died the</l>
<l><del>play</del>house was built, <del>in</del> which <del>the mummers & the</del></l>
<l><del>[madrigals?]</del> gave a <del>lodging to the</del> wandering actors;</l>
<l>their lodging, their centre.</l>
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<l><del>It was a</del></l>
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<l><del>It was open to the air.</del> <del>The</del> It was</l>
<l>surrounded by palings; half open to the air; it</l>
<l><del>for</del> one penny was charged for standing room in the yard.</l>
<l><del>For</del> Twopence a <del>seat was be</del> sixpence a</l>
<l>seat <del>in the</del> under a <del>roof</del> the thatched roof. The</l>
<l><del><rs type="place" xml:id="pla-rose" key="Rose, The">Rose</rs> was</del> <del>Rose was</del> <del>At half past two <add place="above">in the</add> the</del></l>
<l><del>flag flew, the trumpets sounded, & the audience</del></l>
<l><del><del>assembled.</del> They <del>came from the</del> <del>came in wherries</del></del></l>
<l><del>assembled.</del> <del>Their neigh</del> <del>next the</del> <del>The Rose</del> was</l>
<l><del>next door to</del> <del>It</del> <add place="above">It</add> was a rough neighbourhood.</l>
<l>Next door to the Rose in <rs type="place" xml:id="pla-sout" key="Southwark">Southwark</rs> stood</l>
<l>a brothel. Hogs infested the streets. The house itself</l>
<l>was built of wood; the roof was thatched; &</l>
<l>a <del>flag flew when the <del>time</del> play was</del> <del>when</del> the</l>
<l><del>hour for the performance</del> at half past two in</l>
<l>the afternoon a flag was hoisted, & trumpets</l>
<l>sounded <add place="above">& the gates [illeg.]</add> the audience <del>came</del> assembled.</l>
<l><del>They were ferried across in boats; the</del></l>
<l><del>The greater part were</del> For one penny they
<choice>
<sic>cd</sic>
<corr>could</corr>
</choice></l>
<l>stand in the yard; for twopence procure a seat in</l>
<l>the galley, for sixpence a seat under the roof.</l>
<l><del>Wh</del> They <del>flocked to the play</del> What other was</l>
<l>there for them to do?</l>
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<l>No name was <del>attached to <rs type="literary-work" xml:id="lit-tamb" key="Tamburlaine">Tamburlaine</rs></del> anonymous.</l>
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<l>The play was anonymous. That fact by itself</l>
<l>is enough to show how largely the <del>play was</del> still</l>
<l>the <del>work of</del> <del>inspired</del> a <del>common product.</del></l>
<l>detached from the author, unclaimed, <del>as they made</del></l>
<l>a common product, <del>shaped</del> written by one hand, but</l>
<l>so moulded in its transition from the written word</l>
<l>to the spoken that the author had no sense of</l>
<l>propriety in it. <del>Thus,</del> <del>when we</del> <del>If we</del></l>
<l><del>And yet</del> <del>Our</del> <del>The silence of the audience</del></l>
<l>Yet the audience itself is dumb. <del>We</del></l>
<l>They <del>flocked</del> to the play. <del>They</del> <del>The</del></l>
<l>Fifteen hundred people, the main part apprentices, citizens,</l>
<l>heard <rs type="literary-work" xml:id="lit-tamb" key="Tamburlaine">Tamburlane</rs>; but <del>for</del> <del>they say but one</del> <del>in silence</del> word.</l>
<l>The silence of the
<choice>
<sic>Ethn</sic>
<corr>Elizabethan</corr>
</choice> audience is one of the</l>
<l>gulfs that separates us
<choice>
<sic>fr.</sic>
<corr>from</corr>
</choice> the plays. We can</l>
<l>feel, in <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-cmar" key="Marlowe, Christopher">Marlowe</rs>, the <del>pr</del> presence of some</l>
<l><del>them a l. drawing up the <del>fee</del> extravagance,</del></l>
<l><del>[likeness?], as a a [daub drawn?] as a paper draws up a</del></l>
<l>[foie?]. <del>They</del> We <del>can suppose that the</del></l>
<l>It has the audacity & the [illeg.] <add place="above">vigour</add> <del>of a play</del></l>
<l>which even in our day a <del>a greatly</del></l>
<l>best selling novel. <del>It is</del> The flow & the speed &</l>
<l><del>something</del> as if something were eager the</l>
<l>writer to accomodate & great deeds</l>
<l>beyond his private reach. But</l>
<l>the silence is unbroken.</l>
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<l><del>Thus to understand</del> <del>The audience at <rs type="place" xml:id="pla-rose" key="Rose, The">the Rose</rs></del></l>
<l><del>If</del> To understand that silence we have to</l>
<l>compare it with our own sense of something</l>
<l>that takes the breath away, is emerging, is</l>
<l>natural, is [illeg.] released, yet</l>
<l>uncritical – The attitude say of our own</l>
<l>audiences at the <rs type="literary-work" xml:id="lit-balle" key="Ballet Russes">Russian ballet</rs>, at the</l>
<l><rs type="literary-work" xml:id="lit-cine" key="Cinema">cinema</rs>. <del>It seems one can</del> if new art</l>
<l>comes upon us so suddenly &</l>
<l>surprisingly that we <del>sit silent,</del></l>
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<l>weighing what we know, but cannot measure. And</l>
<l>to the Elizabethans words after their long <del>of</del></l>
<l>silence, the power of words to say at last what</l>
<l>was in them, <del>corked up,</del> <del>must be</del> must have</l>
<l>given their early <del>plays</del> <del>in</del> returned them in front of</l>
<l>their early plays, where, for the first time,</l>
<l>they [listened?] themselves. <del>They</del> as if after ages of</l>
<l>entombment, they had <del>lifted the</del> come out into the air:</l>
<l>as if at last, they [hiheed?] what is human life;</l>
<l>what is love, what is <del>sorrow.</del> and for the <del>first</del></l>
<l><del>The</del> This knowledge was conveyed not by the</l>
<l>preacher, nor by the historian. It was made audible</l>
<l>visible tangible in the <del>to see freely for</del></l>
<l>flesh. <del>But</del> This is a curious invention.</l>
<del>
<l><del>to be aware</del> The dramatists gave the</l>
<l>audiences their existence. We are made aware</l>
<l>of the
<choice>
<sic>Ethn</sic>
<corr>Elizabethan</corr>
</choice> by the <del>fiction</del> dramatists.</l>
<l><del>This</del> In Marlowe we see them as great</l>
</del>
<l><del>conquerers</del> But <add place="above">if</add> the audience received this</l>
<l>extraordinary proof of their being without comment.</l>
<l>It was unto <del>t</del> rapture. Again & again the</l>
<l>the <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-lmay" key="Lord Mayor of London">Lord Mayor</rs> [propated?] against the</l>
<l>intoxication that was offered at the Playhouse.</l>
<l>But the attraction was irresistible.</l>
<l><del>If we imagine</del> <del>This</del> For there at the <rs type="place" xml:id="pla-rose" key="Rose, The">Rose</rs>, in</l>
<l>the <rs type="place" xml:id="pla-glob" key="Globe, The">Globe</rs>, at the <rs type="place" xml:id="pla-fort" key="Fortune, The">Fortune</rs>, men & women who</l>
<l>had never seen themselves yet, whose only</l>
<l>reading was a letter, or a sermon, or an old</l>
<l>story of Knights & ladies, <del>saw</del> or perhaps</l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>cd</sic>
<corr>could</corr>
</choice> not even read, but were [buy?] all day</l>
<l>labours, struggling; getting a livelihood in one of [illeg.]</l>
<l>saw <del>the ver</del> their own lives composed</l>
<l>lit up, adorned: & heard, at last,</l>
<l>their own daily experiences, the dreams they had</l>
<l>the passions they felt, <del>the</del> spoken out loud.</l>
<l>in poetry.</l>
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<l>[illeg.], as they</l>
<l>were;</l>
<l><del>making</del> joking:</l>
<l>squalling:</l>
<l>fighting.</l>
</add>
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<l><del>The</del> <del>poetry was</del> <del>But</del> <del>Poetry
<choice>
<sic>cd</sic>
<corr>could</corr>
</choice> not of course</del></l>
<l><del>The</del> <del>The audience</del> The popular play</l>
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<l>owes its extravagance, its lust, its bright [yellow?] quality to the</l>
<l>audience in the penny seats. But there was also a</l>
<l>sprinkling of gentry, [sultry?] [interpass?], <del>under th</del></l>
<l>with a ceiling over them. Their silence was</l>
<l>equally profound. <del>It is strange that among</del></l>
<l>was <del>it that</del> a native art still seemed despicable?</l>
<l>Or <del>was it that</del> <del>at</del> But the cultivated, the wealthy,</l>
<l>the <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-fbac">Bacon</rs>, the <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-eliz" key="Elizabeth I">Elizabeth</rs>, the <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-wral" key="Raleigh, Walter">Raleigh</rs>, also</l>
<l>[listened?]</l>
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<del>
<l><rs type="person" xml:id="psn-fbac" key="Bacon, Francis">Bacon</rs> <del>for example</del>, set down some of his</l>
<l>meditations, in the <rs type="literary-work" xml:id="lit-baes" key="Essays (Bacon)">Essays</rs></l>
</del>
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<add place="margin">156</add>
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<l><quote source="#" rend="inline">"These things are but toyes"</quote> Bacon wrote, in the</l>
<l>essay <del>called</del> <rs type="literary-work" xml:id="lit-masq" key="Of Masques and Triumphs">"Of Masques & Triumphs"</rs>..</l>
<l><del>whenever</del> <del>Comedies</del> <del>Their proper</del> <quote source="#" rend="inline">"The stage is</quote></l>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline"></quote>more beholding to Love, than the Life of Man"</l>
<l>the <del>life of man</del> .... <quote source="#" rend="inline">great sports & great</quote></l>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline">baseness, doe keepe out of this weake passion"</quote></l>
<l><del>its</del> proper place was on the stage, where</l>
<l><add place="margin">Love
<choice>
<sic>wh.</sic>
<corr>which</corr>
</choice> leads to</add> <quote source="#" rend="inline">"speaking in <del>p</del> a perpetual hyperbole"</quote> was</l>
<l><del>was</del> <del>as</del> The place for that was the stage.</l>
<l>When Bacon walked in his <quote source="#" rend="inline">"delicate groves"</quote></l>
<l>meditating, <del>he</del> <del><quote source="#" rend="inline">this one of mens activities</quote></del></l>
<l><del>Ke</del> <del>scarcely took its place</del> had no place in</l>
<l><del>was dismissed</del> away fellow observations</l>
<l><add place="margin">156</add> though <quote source="#" rend="inline">"Princes will have such things"</quote></l>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline"></quote>save that since Princes will have such things</l>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline"></quote>it is better they
<choice>
<sic>shd</sic>
<corr>should</corr>
</choice> be graced with elegancy</l>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline">than daubed with cost"</quote> The <del>conduct</del></l>
<l><del>not essays</del> <del>The</del> The Essays <del>are</del> <add place="above">[graves?]</add> separate</l>
<l>[hypocrites?] <del>The thoughts that <del>darted into</del> his mind</del></l>
<l><del>as <del>he walked [illeg.] in the shade of his trees</del></del></l>
<l>are <del>rich, grave</del>; the <del>grave</del> <del>They</del> The real &</l>
<l>the <del>world</del> walking in his gloves, the life of man</l>
<l><del>appears</del> the <del>world</del> He is <del>meditating</del></l>
<l><del>Comedies & tragedies.</del> He is meditating the</l>
<l>real life of man. <del>He is</del> the intricacies, the</l>
<l>difficulties, the fortunes ways of state; the</l>
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<l>the talk of</l>
<l>rulers</l>
<l>[gush?] about</l>
<l>[ruler?]</l>
<l>[illeg.]</l>
<l>needing</l>
<l>[disculion?]</l>
<l>in the</l>
<l>dark</l>
<l>[illeg.] of</l>
</add>
</p>
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<l>the difficult lives of princes and rulers; who are</l>
<l>to whom the conduct of government is contracted. He</l>
<l>the Essays are the sediment of the <del>high</del> talk at</l>
<l>high tables; <del>when the</del> the common people are</l>
<l>contemptible, their diversions toys. The proper</l>
<l><del>subject</del> topic for rulers is the conduct of</l>
<l>affairs: where to [yield?]; how to steer; how to</l>
<l>placate, how to coax; how to control. <del>He</del> <add>To</add> the</l>
<l>aristocrat the play at the Globe or the Rose was</l>
<del>
<l>a mere diversion, a rhapsody; something to</l>
<l>amuse the common people, but outside the pale of</l>
<l>ridicule; a diversion, <del>the</del> <del>best</del> to be vilified, as a</l>
<l><del>sign of</del> since the ruler meant to be aware of</l>
</del>
<l>the close <del>[complaint?]</del> reflections, that darted into his head,</l>
<l>pass through [illeg.] channels, & if the in crabbed</l>
<l>& [compait?] statements <add place="above">sentences</add>. <del>The groves shall wall</del></l>
<l>him in. <del>There is none of the</del> The soul is</l>
<l>shut in; not, as in the other common Essays, free:</l>
<l><rs type="person" xml:id="psn-mmon" key="Montaigne, Michel de">Montaigne</rs>, by comparison, is free, <del>of every</del></l>
<l>rambling, <del>live</del> [unjust?], a vagabond, a ranger.</l>
<l><del>But in</del> <del>And yet the</del> <del>But Lord Chancellor two</del></l>
<l>Nothing <del>it</del>
<choice>
<sic>cd</sic>
<corr>could</corr>
</choice> be more antipathetic to the</l>
<l>stage than this absorbed, [autoeratic?] [region?]</l>
<l>Pacing his groves, jotting his experience into</l>
<l>close packed sentences. The wild <del>[attitudes?]</del> as</l>
<l>action, <del>irr</del> irresponsible plays <del>seem</del></l>
<l><del>dis</del> with their hyperbole, <del>their</del> seems childs play.</l>
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<del>
<l>And yet, in <del>it</del> <del>the thought of the [illeg.], the</del></l>
<l>the ruler, the speaker, the press of experience</l>
<l>which <del><rs type="person" xml:id="psn-fbac" key="Bacon, Francis">Bacon</rs></del> <del>gave</del> which lay behind</l>
</del>
<l><del>was</del> <del>is</del> <del>And</del> The And yet</l>
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<l>was there not even in the grave &</l>
<l>subtle rulers a child? <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-eliz" key="Elizabeth I">The Queen</rs></l>
<l>[surveyed?] plays as a "solace." The</l>
<l>scheming minds of the Elizabethan nobles</l>
<l>had their need of farce, of hyperbole.</l>
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<l>at this grave</l>
<l>hour, this</l>
<l>[holiday?]
<choice>
<sic>shd</sic>
<corr>should</corr>
</choice></l>
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<l>And the play could not disregard the <del>presence</del> in</l>
<l>[purence?], at court, in the loud room at the</l>
<l>theatre. <del>The sag</del> <del>A</del> <del>Suggestivene</del> When</l>
<l>Even in <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-fbac" key="Bacon, Francis">Bacon</rs> himself, with <del>his</del> all his [creyt?] his</l>
<l>[canhou?] his astuteness there is <del>the same</del> some</l>
<l>thing rich, figured, fantastic. He <del>too embodies</del>,</l>
<l>substantiates: even the great moralities are</l>
<l>coloured. <quote source="#" rend="inline">'Nay retire man cannot, when they</quote></l>
<quote source="#" rend="inline">
<l>would; neither will they when it were Reason;</l>
<l>But are impatient of privateness, even in</l>
<l>Life, & Sicknesse, which require the Shadow:</l>
<l>Like old Townesmen, that will still in</l>
<l>sitting at their street doore; though thereby</l>
</quote>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline">they offer Age to Scorne."</quote> In <del>an age</del> of</l>
<l><del>creation,</del> no figure <del>can take its seat</del>
<choice>
<sic>cd.</sic>
<corr>could</corr>
</choice></l>
<l>take its seat in the playhouse without</l>
<l>affecting the play. The <rs type="literary-work" xml:id="lit-essa" key="Essays (Bacon)">Essays</rs> were after all</l>
<l>making <del>a way</del> <add>it [point?]</add> for the dramatist to <del>t</del></l>
<l>to express, even in the play, in the stage, the</l>
<l>thought that was compressed, subtle:</l>
<l>if, at <rs type="place" xml:id="pla-gren" key="Greenwich">
<choice>
<sic>Grenwich</sic>
<corr>Greenwich</corr>
</choice></rs> or <rs type="place" xml:id="pla-whit" key="Whitehall">Whitehall</rs>, one of the <del>dramatists</del> <add place="above"><del>s</del> [servant?]</add></l>
<l>caught sight of that inscrutable, [dusk?] figure, he</l>
<l>whose stake was so low, who were</l>
<l>more [movable?] [egged?] in solace the</l>
<l>Queens leisure, the figure
<choice>
<sic>wd.</sic>
<corr>would</corr>
</choice> <de>en</de> use again</l>
<l>in the play, adding another personage to the</l>
<l>great company. Hyperbole required [cowal?]</l>
<l><del>The</del> <del>An</del> Everything, when times are absorbent,</l>
<l>everything is thrown into the pot. <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-fbac" key="Bacon, Francis">Bacon</rs>,</l>
<l><rs type="literary-work" xml:id="lit-stra" key="Elizabeth and Essex">Elizabeth, Essex</rs>; the little rooms were to</l>
<l>this high aristocratic mood. Anonymity</l>
<l>confers with its cloak of invisibility the power to</l>
<l>to go everywhere. The dramatists were gods</l>
<l>spies. They And so, Bacon</l>
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<l>their</l>
<l>irrepressible</l>
<l>number</l>
</add>
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<l>to whom masques were toyes, who, much as a</l>
<l>modern <del>imp</del>statesman must hold aloof from</l>
<l>the <del>current film, the</del> extravagance of the popular</l>
<l>taste, was [homily?] and <del>exploited.</del> <del>The images</del></l>
<l><del>there was</del> the aristocratic world was soon to</l>
<l>find that the mountebanks could</l>
<l><del>ex</del> put them onto the stage;
<choice>
<sic>cd.</sic>
<corr>could</corr>
</choice> impersonate</l>
<l>greatness, as <del>well as</del> <del>as</del> with <del>in commoners, &</del></l>
<l><del>ex</del> speak until <del>all the</del> & speak slowly, closely</l>
<l>ponderously <add place="above">humbly</add>. <del><rs type="person" xml:id="psn-fbac" key="Bacon, Francis">Bacons</rs> power</del> The little <rs type="literary-work" xml:id="lit-essa" key="Essays (Bacon)">essays</rs></l>
<l>were making it possible to check [hourly?]</l>
<l>hyperbole with prose. <del>The extravagance</del></l>
<l>Had there been no prose in the plays, the</l>
<l><rs type="place" xml:id="pla-glob" key="Globe, The">Globe</rs> & <rs type="place" xml:id="pla-rose" key="Rose, The">the Rose</rs> & <rs type="place" xml:id="pla-swan" key="Swan, The">the Swan</rs> might have</l>
<l>remained trivial. <del>Poetry ha</del> The poetry that the</l>
<l>masses loved was easy, extravagant, it
<choice>
<sic>cd</sic>
<corr>could</corr>
</choice> be</l>
<l>[bold?] & [ranting?]. But a great age is an</l>
<l>immensely suggestible age. Player to queen,</l>
<l>prince, chancellor & statesman, the play <del>must</del> <add place="above">was</add> took <del>colour from them. It was</del></l>
<l>noted, other ways. <del>The <del>vast</del> Marlowe</del></l>
<l><del>For</del> <del>There was to be an amalgamation</del></l>
<l>As the <del>plays</del> <del>years</del> scenes passed, & play</l>
<l>succeeded play, the presence of the Lords</l>
<l>in the [ailid?] rooms <del>was</del> <del>gave</del> had its effect.</l>
<l>There is poetry for the groundlings, <del>but</del></l>
<l>but for the gentlemen upstaise, there are</l>
<l><del>the</del> is thought, subtlety, <add place="above">&</add> a the contrast</l>
<l>[deine?] essays concerned between delicate groves</l>
<l>lines, at last, in the lips of actors &</l>
<l>the brooding mind is given a body to</l>
<l>inhabit. Bacon is set among the [set?]</l>
<l>given the comment & the contrast which</l>
<l>the other's supply.</l>
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<l>It was half the work of the audience. The audience was a</l>
<l>large one. Fifteen hundred people, <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-greg" key="Greg, W. W.">Dr Greg</rs> computes was</l>
<l><del>was</del> an average audience. Of them, the greater part <del>was is</del></l>
<l>were <del>in</del> apprentices, citizens, soldiers, the common people.</l>
<l>Their presence is in the being part of the house is</l>
<l>obvious. <del>They</del> It is they who draw up the <del>play</del></l>
<l>hyperbole, the extravagance of <rs type="literary-work" xml:id="lit-tamb" key="Tamburlaine">Tamburlaine</rs> as a</l>
<l>sheet of paper draws up a fire. <del>An eager</del> It is the</l>
<l><del>audie</del> presence of an enthusiastic audience</l>
<l>that makes the writer embrace a great [strides?] &</l>
<l>vast audacities beyond his private reach.</l>
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<l>Yet the audience is silent.</l>
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<l>The silence of the
<choice>
<sic>E<hi rend="superscript">thn</hi></sic>
<corr>Elizabethan</corr>
</choice> audience is one of the deep</l>
<l>gulfs that lies between us & the
<choice>
<sic>E<hi rend="superscript">thn</hi></sic>
<corr>Elizabethan</corr>
</choice> play.</l>
<l>The audience <del>makes no comment; it is</del> neither praises nor</l>
<l>damns. So</l>
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<l><del>The <del>play</del> dramatist then, had every incitement to</del></l>
<l><del><del>to rant, to rhapsodise</del>, to <del>write wh</del> write <del>in</del> poetry:</del></l>
<l><del><del>the height</del> <del>From the common part of the house</del></del></l>
<l>[illeg.] the house. <del>But</del> They need <del>their</del></l>
<l><del>heightening</del> <del>[rapsody?] & the rhythm</del> what heightens</l>
<l>magnifies, <del>&</del> <del>the falsification</del> <del>& the</del></l>
<l>even yet falsifies. But in the seats under the</l>
<l>ceiling there were nobles, rulers <del>men to whom the</del></l>
<l>scholars. Their silence is harder to explain.</l>
<l><del>It is difficult to understand how</del> <del>Yet</del> <del>might</del></l>
<l>day <del>after day they.</del> How <del>as</del> was it that the little</l>
<l>highly educated Elizabethan public <del>sat</del> <del>made no</del></l>
<l><add place="inline">more</add> <del>comment upon</del> <del>this</del> <del>the play than the groundlings?</del></l>
<l>were as silent as the groundlings?</l>
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<l>Perhaps <del>one of the most</del> Bacon, who, in his</l>
<l>youth had seen <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-wsha" key="Shakespeare, William">Shakespeare</rs> <rs type="literary-work" xml:id="lit-come" key="Comedy of Errors">Comedy of Errors</rs> acted</l>
<l>at <rs type="place" xml:id="pla-gray" key="Gray's Inn">
<choice>
<sic>Greys</sic>
<corr>Gray's</corr>
</choice> Inn</rs>, <del>hints at</del> drops a hint</l>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline">These things be but toyes"</quote> <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-fbac" key="Bacon, Francis">Bacon</rs> wrote in the essay</l>
<l><rs type="literary-work" xml:id="lit-masq" key="Of Masques and Triumphs">On Masques & Triumphs</rs> The actors were</l>
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<l>still <del>much</del> only mountebanks, bear leaders, acrobats. <del>The</del></l>
<l><del>It</del> The <del>play was simply a diversion; & the players</del></l>
<l><del>the players</del> <del>were</del> were <del>sill</del> still beyond the pale of</l>
<l>civilised society; <del>When they had</del> Off the stage they were</l>
<l>they <del>brawled,</del> <del>stuck knives into</del> <del>knifed each other,</del></l>
<l><del>brawled,</del> cut each others throats; lived in the <del>depths of</del></l>
<l><rs type="literary-work" xml:id="lit-hear" key="Heart of Darkness">heart of darkness</rs>, <del>in danger</del>, <del>The</del> <del>So complete</del></l>
<l>with <del>knives</del> cut throats & [atheists?]. Bacon</l>
<l>so complete in his contempt for the mountebanks at</l>
<l><rs type="place" xml:id="pla-sout" key="Southwark">Southwark</rs> that he can be tolerant. The proper</l>
<l>place for the weak passion of love was the stage <del>"</del></l>
<l>for <quote source="#" rend="inline">love leads to speaking in a perpetual</quote></l>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline">hyperbole."</quote> <del>That</del> <del>Was it this gulf between the</del></l>
<l><del>rulers & the players that</del> <del>In any other age,</del></l>
<l><del><del>the</del> a thousand pens would have <del>recorded, the</del></del></l>
<l><del><del>told</del> been busy with gossip</del> Such was the</l>
<l>gulf between players & society that no <del>one</del></l>
<l><del>ga</del> <del>busied</del> <del>gossiped when a player</del> <del>goings was</del></l>
<l><del>flouted to</del> <del>went</del>
<choice>
<sic>gossipd</sic>
<corr>gossiped</corr>
</choice> about [Mr Witt?]: & <add place="above">no one</add> asked</l>
<l><del>Shakespeare.</del> The moments addressed to him by one of his</l>
<l>players. <del>There</del> Such In <del>the upper</del> world</l>
<l><del>Bacon</del> <del>The</del> propper topics for discussion in the upper</l>
<l>world are to be found in the titles of Bacons</l>
<l>essays. If we want to hear what was said</l>
<l>in the nobleman rooms we must [put on?] to</l>
<l>Bacon, meditating in the <add place="above">his</add> delicate groves; of</l>
<l>state; of death; of [scripture?] in Religion; of</l>
<l>Revenge; of Audacity, of simulation and dissimulation</l>
<l>of parents & children, of Marriage and Single life..</l>
<l>The essays preserve the sediment of the</l>
<l>folk at the high table, <del>with <rs type="literary-work" xml:id="lit-stra" key="Elizabeth and Essex">Elizabeth, with</rs></del></l>
<l><rs type="literary-work" xml:id="lit-stra" key="Elizabeth and Essex"><del>with Essex</del></rs> <del>If the <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-eliz" key="Elizabeth I">Queen</rs></del> <add place="above"><del>the</del></add> He is concerned</l>
<l>with the world of princes; with the art of</l>
<l><del>Government, with the</del> <del>ruling men:</del> with the</l>
<l>art of <del>see</del> <del>putting affairs</del> <del>seeing</del> government; with the</l>
<l><del>extreme</del> <del>difficulties <del>of</del> that meet the ruler,</del></l>
<l>with the tortuous natures of mankind; & the</l>
<l>as it shows itself in business, in state affairs:</l>
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<l> the people are contemptible <quote source="#" rend="inline">"The marker of superstition is</quote></l>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline">the people..</quote> <del>Praise ...</del> Praise, <quote source="#" rend="inline">"if it be from the</quote></l>
<quote source="#" rend="inline">
<l>Common People, <del>is</del> it is commonly False & Naught:...</l>
<l>The Lowest Vertues draw praise from them:</l>
<l>The middle vertues worke in their astonismnent, in</l>
<l>admiration; but of the Highest Vertues, they have no</l>
<l>sense, in perceiving at all. But shewes, &</l>
<l>species virtubus similes, serve best with them"</l>
</quote>
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<l><del>The</del> <del>Yet,</del> <del>The soul is shut in by these delicate groves.</del></l>
<l><del>Walking in his groves, <del>he</del> <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-fbac" key="Bacon, Francis">Bacon</rs></del> The soul that walks in</l>
<l><del>those delicate groves</del> <del>is</del> keeps to a narrow path between</l>
<l>hedges. <del>The Elizabethan soul is <del>shut</del> has</del></l>
<l>while <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-mmon" key="Montaigne, Michel de">Montaigne</rs> ranges the world, rambling &</l>
<l><del>vagrant,</del> [infectuous?], <add place="above">[slovenly?] &</add> loose, fertile, <del>fecund</del></l>
<l>endlessly <del>infectuous</del> <del>Mast</del> Bacon keeps to the narrow</l>
<l>path. <del>And, as</del> <del>There was</del> between hedges. <del>There was</del></l>
<l><del>no</del> <del>And the</del> <del>Yet even the presence of their</del></l>
<l>the <del>force of the thoughts brewed there</del> Yet, <del>there is a</del></l>
<l>Even in those <add place="above">first shades</add> groves, thought <del>is</del> is <add place="above">but</add> embodied, palpable.</l>
<l>It <del>uses is rich</del> This <del>rich, embo</del> ...</l>
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<l><del>The</del> <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-fbac" key="Bacon, Francis">Bacons</rs> contempt for hyperbole was medicinal.</l>
<l>He was teaching the [irrepressible?] atheistical player to</l>
<l>speak slowly, clearly, subtly, to stiffen their</l>
<l>poetry with prose. If a creative eye is, like</l>
<l>youth in the [individu?], infinity suggestible, thus</l>
<l><del>
<choice>
<sic>tho</sic>
<corr>though</corr>
</choice> <del>Lord Ch</del> waiting [illeg.] [gender?], in setting by his</del></l>
<l><del>Q [Lah?] when for his solace, she</del> Bacon packed</l>
<l>little bags added <del>in their</del> something to the common stock.</l>
<l>For <del>the essays</del> <del>But</del> <quote source="#" rend="inline">These things are but toyes</quote></l>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline">but since Princes will have such things,</quote></l>
<l>There was a child even in these who was</l>
<l>enmeshed in the body of [illeg.] The queen needed</l> <!-- ask about strange abbreviation -->
<l>the solace of her players. <del>And</del> the queen &</l>
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<l>the statesman, having for a moment in their incessant labour,</l>
<l>added to the play something aristocratic, high, intricate.</l>
<l>The grave figures <del>t</del> to whom the play was nothing serious,</l>
<l>to whom players were the riff raff of the ages, sit round</l>
<l>themselves, as time went on, on the stage themselves.</l>
<l>The <del>plays</del> <del>they have</del> the playwrights have not</l>
<l><del>nothing</del> to incorporate them too. <del>And so, through</del></l>
<l><del>th</del> Gradually they learn the trick of <del>involved</del> sw</l>
<l>swift thought. <del>Therefore</del> <del>making</del> Clothed in</l>
<l>their innumerable [jewels?] had anonymity, the players</l>
<l>were about the court, in the groves. Even</l>
<l>if <del>the soul</del> there was no <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-mmon" key="Montaigne, Michel de">Montaigne</rs> to <del>put</del></l>
<l>give the soul fluency, freedom, vagrancy, there <del>was</del></l>
<l>were <del>then packed</del> <del>the</del> was <del>in <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-fbac" key="Bacon, Francis">Bacons</rs> eye</del> Bacon to [illeg.]</l>
<l><del>the</del> <del>some</del> knowledge, [imagery?], [everylt?], the arts of</l>
<l>made available; in very close words; in <del>such</del> few</l>
<l>wordsl in words that compress meaning, yet give it</l>
<l>also a palpable body. <del>The great states</del></l>
<l><del>pholosopher made his thoughts [accumulate?]: &</del></l>
<l><del>in addition, <del>the very soul</del> <del>something</del> the</del></l>
<l><del>[Gass tion?]</del> <del>&</del> there was Bacon</l>
<l>himself in his essays, furtive, ambiguous, noble</l>
<l>timid, crafty; – & the Queen. The</l>
<l>silence of the <del>up</del> <del>cei</del> nobles in the upper room is</l>
<l><del>is broken,</del> <del>the silence</del> the nobles, scholars</l>
<l>may ignore the play itself. But their</l>
<l>presence is obvious too. The presence of their</l>
<l>version, <del>[contorted?] silence,</del> [illeg.], even if they</l>
<l>sit there, without saying anything, is reflected; <del>as the</del> <add place="above">in the</add></l>
<l><del>whole of Elizabeth</del> way that the other</l>
<l>whole body of [illeg.] life is separated</l>
<l><del>If</del> By a curious [reverse?], though</l>
<l>the
<choice>
<sic>Ethns</sic>
<corr>Elizabethans</corr>
</choice> are unknown to us through their own</l>
<l>words,they are known to us in their</l>
<l>reflection. There <del>normal</del> <add place="above">the</add> men & women who are</l>
<l>so <del>[illeg.]</del> curtail <del>where they</del> <add place="above">in their home it</add> themselves, are</l>
<l><del>all</del> vanish, unaudible, <del>a</del> love & hate & laugh</l>
<l><del>in</del> on the stage.</l>
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