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The Elizabethan drama was aimed at a public which wanted entertainment of a crude sort, but would stand a good deal of poetry; our problem should be to take a form of entertainment, and subject it to the process which would leave it a form of art. Perhaps the music-hall comedian is the best material. I am aware that this is a dangerous suggestion to make. For every person who is likely to consider it seriously there are a dozen toymakers who would leap to tickle aesthetic society into one more quiver and giggle of art debauch.
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© 1978 Stephen Spender
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Spender, S. (1978). The Poetic Dramas of W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. In: The Thirties and After. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04237-1_8
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