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without pauses. In this way the work of modern scholars
" and, critics has influenced stage production. This was seen
in such, a production as Mr. John, Gielgud's Romeo and
Juliet, when the scenery, though attractive and full of
colour, was deliberately constructed to give rapid playing.
Thus the whole play was preserved and acted at great
speed, with the result that the production revealed how
magnificent is the plot of Romeo and Juliet, apart altogether
"from its poetry.
For the student, whether critic,, scholar or actor, all
'three approaches meet in Dr. Harley Granville-Barker^?s
Prefaces to Shakespeare, which are the most stimulating and
illuminating criticisms of Shakespeare that have appeared
in the last thirty years.