2026-04-23 12:52 UTC
@scotlit@mastodon.scot ah, sorry, I meant just in interpretation. My reading of it is a bit more prosaic than theirs. I imagine the poor suffering boy is not feeling much of the "communal in the arts"...
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot 2026-04-23 13:36
@jbenjamint@mastodon.scot I think he does, possibly. I don’t think people necessarily have to suffer for art but it is often hard work … and I can imagine what a thrill it would be for the actor, when finally he moves and makes the audience gasp. And, too, Shakespeare is telling the actor that he, the writer, can’t do everything: the boy must use his own talents to convey forgiveness – the key aspect of the scene, indeed of the whole play. The actor’s skills are as crucial as the playwright’s.