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<title>M112, Set 3 of 3 [The Reader: so long as the play was dominant.]. Typescript fragment, unsigned and undated. 3 fols.</title>
<author>Virginia Woolf</author>
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<resp>Encoded by</resp>
<name>Joshua Phillips</name>
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<funder>The Leverhulme Trust: Grant ECF-2022-602</funder>
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<authority>The Estate of Virginia Woolf, administered by the Society of Authors</authority>
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<p>© Estate of Virginia Woolf 2022</p>
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<l>35</l>
</p>
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<l>so long as the play was dominant. The audience at the play</l>
<l>house had to draw in <del hand="typewriter">their</del> the play with their eyes and</l>
<l>ears. Without a book of the words they could not deepen and</l>
<l>revise the impression left by the play, or ask those</l>
<l>questions that are debated now in every newspaper. The lack</l>
<l>of general reading accounts for the long pause between</l>
<l><rs type="person" xml:id="psn-wsha" key="Shakespeare, William">Shakespeares</rs> death and the
<choice>
<sic>k8th</sic>
<corr>18th</corr>
</choice> century when the plays of</l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>Shakespere</sic>
<corr>Shakespeare</corr>
</choice> hung suspended, unrealised-- even in 17</l>
<l><rs type="person" xml:id="psn-mmor" key="Morgann, Maurice">Morgann</rs> could say that
<choice>
<sic>Shakespera</sic>
<corr>Shakespeare</corr>
</choice> still lacked</l>
<l>half his
<choice>
<sic>proer</sic>
<corr>proper</corr>
</choice> fame. The lack of a reading public</l>
<l>accounts too for the scarcity of criticism and for the</l>
<l>general nature of what criticism there is. Both <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-psid" key="Sidney, Philip">Sidney</rs> and</l>
<l><rs type="person" xml:id="psn-bjon" key="Jonson, Ben">Jonson</rs> are writing for the small critical public, and thus</l>
<l>deal with
<choice>
<sic>ggneral</sic>
<corr>general</corr>
</choice> questions, and not with
<choice>
<sic>partciualr</sic>
<corr>particular</corr>
</choice> books</l>
<l>and
<choice>
<sic>perons</sic>
<corr>persons</corr>
</choice>.</l>
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<l>The reader then
<choice>
<sic>com s</sic>
<corr>comes</corr>
</choice> into existence some time</l>
<l>at
<choice>
<sic>teh</sic>
<corr>the</corr>
</choice> end of the sixteenth century, and his life history</l>
<l>could we discover it would be worth writing, for the effect</l>
<l>it had upon literature. At some point his ear must have</l>
<l>lost its acuteness; at
<choice>
<sic>a other</sic>
<corr>another</corr>
</choice> his eye must have become dull.</l>
<l>Our own attempt when we read the early Elizabethan
<choice>
<sic>palys</sic>
<corr>plays</corr>
</choice></l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>the</sic>
<corr>to</corr>
</choice> supply the trumpets and the flags, the citizens and the</l>
<l>apprentices is an effort to revert to an earlier stage.</l>
<l>As time goes on
<choice>
<sic>th</sic>
<corr>the</corr>
</choice> reader becomes distinct
<choice>
<sic>f om</sic>
<corr>from</corr>
</choice> the</l>
<l>spectator. His
<choice>
<sic>snese</sic>
<corr>sense</corr>
</choice> of words and their
<choice>
<sic>associat ns</sic>
<corr>associations</corr>
</choice></l>
<l>
<choice>
<sic>dvelops</sic>
<corr>develops</corr>
</choice>. <del hand="typewriter">He</del> A word spelt on the old spelling brings</l>
<l>in
<choice>
<sic>asscoations</sic>
<corr>associations</corr>
</choice>. Readers split off into different
<choice>
<sic>clases</sic>
<corr>classes</corr>
</choice>.</l>
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<l>36</l>
</p>
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<l>As the habit of reading becomes universal, readers split off</l>
<l>into different classes. There is the
<choice>
<sic>specilaised</sic>
<corr>specialised</corr>
</choice> reader, who</l>
<l>attaches himself to certain aspects of the
<choice>
<sic>rpinted</sic>
<corr>printed</corr>
</choice> word.</l>
<l>Again there is the very large class of perfectly literate</l>
<l>people who strip many miles of print yearly from paper</l>
<l>yet never read a word. Finally
<choice>
<sic>ere</sic>
<corr>there</corr>
</choice> is the reader like</l>
<l><add hand="typewriter" place="above">who, like</add> Lady <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-aclif" key="Clifford, Ann">
<choice>
<sic>AnnnClifford</sic>
<corr>Ann Clifford</corr>
</choice></rs> read excellent <rs type="person" xml:id="psn-gcha" key="Chaucer, Geoffrey">
<choice>
<sic>C aucers</sic>
<corr>Chaucer's</corr>
</choice></rs> book when they</l>
<l>are in trouble <quote source="#" rend="inline">"and a little part of his beauteous spirit</quote></l>
<l><quote source="#" rend="inline">infuses itself in me."</quote> <del hand="typewriter">He has a curious faculty</del> And the</l>
<l>curious faculty --the
<choice>
<sic>pow r</sic>
<corr>power</corr>
</choice> to make places and houses,</l>
<l>men and women and
<choice>
<sic>theit</sic>
<corr>their</corr>
</choice> thoughts and emotions
<choice>
<sic>vivible</sic>
<corr>visible</corr>
</choice> on</l>
<l>the printed page is a <del hand="typewriter">lwa</del> always changing. The <rs type="literary-work" xml:id="lit-cine" key="Cinema">cinema</rs></l>
<l>now
<choice>
<sic>develping</sic>
<corr>developing</corr>
</choice> his eyes; the <rs type="literary-work" xml:id="lit-broa" key="Broadcast">Broadcast</rs> is
<choice>
<sic>develpoing</sic>
<corr>developing</corr>
</choice> his</l>
<l>ear. His importance can be gauged by the fact</l>
<l>that when his attention is distracted, in times of public</l>
<l>crisis, the writer exclaims: I can write no more.</l>
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<l>But the presence of the reader was felt even</l>
<l>while the play was still on
<choice>
<sic>th</sic>
<corr>the</corr>
</choice> stage. It was for him that</l>
<l><rs type="person" xml:id="psn-rbur">Burton</rs> composed that
<choice>
<sic>extraodinary</sic>
<corr>extraordinary</corr>
</choice> composition the <rs type="literary-work" xml:id="lit-anat" key="Anatomy of Melancholy">Anatomy</rs></l>
<l><rs type="literary-work" xml:id="lit-anat">of Melancholy</rs>. It is there that the reader makes his</l>
<l>first appearance, for it is there that we find the writer</l>
<l>completely conscious of
<choice>
<sic>is</sic>
<corr>his</corr>
</choice> relation with the reader.</l>
<l><del hand="typewriter">He</del> and He reveals himself. I am a
<choice>
<sic>bachelor</sic>
<corr>batchelor</corr>
</choice>I am neither</l>
<l>rich nor poor. I am a tumbler over of other mens books.</l>
<l>I live in college rooms. I am a spectator not an actor.</l>
<l>There is
<choice>
<sic>n</sic>
<corr>no</corr>
</choice> playhouse audience forcing him to embody his</l>
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<p facs="https://llkn576nqxepo6yucgfh2nl2ea0kkigc.lambda-url.eu-west-2.on.aws/iiif/2/m112-3/m112-3-5/867,82,193,154/full/0/default.tif">
<l>37</l>
</p>
<p facs="https://llkn576nqxepo6yucgfh2nl2ea0kkigc.lambda-url.eu-west-2.on.aws/iiif/2/m112-3/m112-3-5/831,204,1849,1220/full/0/default.tif">
<l>
<choice>
<sic>meditayions</sic>
<corr>meditations</corr>
</choice>. The vast accumulations, of
<choice>
<sic>lear ing</sic>
<corr>learning</corr>
</choice>, that</l>
<l>have filtered from books into the quiet college room</l>
<l>meander over the page. He sees through a thousand <quote source="#" rend="inline">green
<choice>
<sic>shads</sic>
<corr>shades</corr>
</choice></quote></l>
<l>what lies
<choice>
<sic>immidately</sic>
<corr>immediately</corr>
</choice> before him-- the unhappy heart of</l>
<l>man. The reflections serve to chequer the immediate</l>
<l>spectacle. From books he has won the tolerant sense</l>
<l>that we are not
<choice>
<sic>singl</sic>
<corr>single</corr>
</choice> figures but innumerably
<choice>
<sic>rep ated</sic>
<corr>repeated</corr>
</choice>.</l>
<l>In pursuit of melancholy he travels over the whole world,</l>
<l>though he has never left his college room. We are at a remove</l>
<l>from the thing treated. We are enjoying the spectacle of</l>
<l>melancholy, not sharing is anguish.</l>
</p>
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<l>It is here then that we develop
<choice>
<sic>facuoties</sic>
<corr>faculties</corr>
</choice> that</l>
<l>the play left dormant. to stop; to pause; to
<choice>
<sic>refelct</sic>
<corr>reflect</corr>
</choice>;</l>
<l>to Now the reader is completely in being. He can</l>
<l>pause; he can ponder; he can compare; he can draw back from</l>
<l>the page and see behind it a man sitting alone in the centre</l>
<l>of the labyrinth of words in a college room
<choice>
<sic>thinkinh</sic>
<corr>thinking</corr>
</choice></l>
<l>of suicide. He can gratify many different moods.</l>
<l>He can read directly what is on the page, or, drawing</l>
<l>aside, can read what is not written. There is a long drawn</l>
<l>continuity in the book that the
<choice>
<sic>paly</sic>
<corr>play</corr>
</choice> has not. It gives a</l>
<l>different pace to the mind. We are in a world where</l>
<l>nothing is concluded.</l>
</p>
</div>
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<p> <!-- grab IIIF selector -->
<l>Parsons 3.2.73</l>
</p>
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