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Barker Lectures on Dramatic StagingNoted Playwright Advocates Change in Teaching ofDramatics(Continued from page one)the most valuable parts of his plays, the speaker told his audience. In Shakespearian production, “We should speak the text, the whole text, and nothing but the text.”A return to the Elizabethan stage is better than the modern realistic type, but better still is the use of the stage which Shakespeare would have used, had he the facilities. Along these lines, Mr. Barker has devised a stage, the simple settings of which make possible its use for any play of Shakespeare. In costuming also, the aim should be Shakespeare’s idea rather than historical accuracy. The speaking of the verse, which is, Mr. Barker says, “the crux of Shakespeare,” should be free and natural, and not hampered by the artificialities introduced in the 18th century.|America, thinks Mr. Barker, in the coming century, will have to remould the English tongue. It would be a great benefit if vvc could infuse into it some of the spirit of Shakespeare, who, he says, is unequaled as a maker of word-musie.
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Wed, Mar 07, 1917
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