Abstract
Ben Jonson’s words touch on a sense of theatre that is implicit in Shakespeare’s plays. Our involvement with the plays is both intimate and strange; we lose ordinary bearings and find ourselves drawn into unfamiliar worlds where ‘everything seems double’.2
… I have considered, our whole life is like a Play: wherein everyman, forgetful of himself, is in travail with expression of another. …1
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Brown, J.R. (1981). Engagement. In: Discovering Shakespeare. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16611-4_13
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