“We identify emotionally, subjectively – and yet at one and the same time we evaluate politically, objectively in relation to society. Because the profound reaches past the everyday, a heightened language and a ritualistic use of rhythm brings us to those very aspects of life which the surface hides; and yet because the poet and the visionary do not seem like everyday people, because the epic state is not one on which we normally dwell, it is equally possible for Shakespeare, with a break in his rhythm, a twist into prose, a shift into slangy conversation or else a direct word from the audience to remind us – in plain common sense – of where we are, and to return us to the familiar rough world of spades as spades.”
(page 98)
Peter Brook, The Empty Space. London: Penguin, 1968.
From my own library, bought from the Emily Carr University Library booksale, used, for 50 cents.
Libraries Within Libraries 