Drama’s Vitallest Expression is the Common Day
That arise and set about Us —
Other Tragedy
Perish in the Recitation —
This — the best enact
When the Audience is scattered
And the Boxes shut —
“Hamlet” to Himself were Hamlet —
Had not Shakespeare wrote —
Though the “Romeo” left no Record
Of his Juliet,
It were infinite enacted
In the Human Heart —
Only Theatre recorded
Owner cannot shut —
(Emily Dickinson)
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