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The playwright Peter Shaffer prefaced an edition of his Collected Plays with an appeal to the reader to use his theatrical imagination:
These pages seem to me to resemble those Japanese toy shells which, dropped into a tumbler of water, release a string of colored flowers. My water is the atmosphere of a theater. The more the reader can supply that for himself, the more he will see the plays released from their shells of paper and expand into their full life and colors.1
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Harris, M. (1990). Text and Performance. In: Theater and Incarnation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09697-8_1
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