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      <p continued="N" fullOut="N" runin="N">It was this scene that brought out one of Brecht’s most
        swingeing attacks on what I term the ‘fallacy of the pathetic’:</p>
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        <displayText class="prosequote" id="oso-9780199554591-chapter-16-displayText-1"><p continued="N" fullOut="Y" runin="N">I have here Horace’s <i>Ars Poetica</i> in
            Gottsched’s translation. He really expresses a theory that often concerns us, one that
            Aristotle proposed for the theatre:</p><p>
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     <line>You must enchant and conquer the reader’s breast.</line>
     <line>One laughs with those who laugh and lets tears flow</line>
     <line>When others are sad. So, if you want me to weep</line>
     <line>First show me your own eye full of tears.</line>
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 </displayText></p><p continued="N" fullOut="Y" runin="N">In this well‐known passage Gottsched cites Cicero
            writing on oratory, describing how the Roman actor Polus played Electra mourning her
            brother. His own son had just died, and so he brought the urn with his ashes on to the
            stage and spoke the relevant verses ‘focusing them so painfully on himself that his own
            loss made him weep real tears. Nor could any of those present have refrained from
            weeping at that point.’</p><p continued="N" fullOut="N" runin="N">I must say there is only one word for such an
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      <p continued="N" fullOut="Y" runin="N">What is wrong with such an operation: is it the ready
        communication of suffering of character and actor to audience? With narrowing the distance
        between actor, classic role, and modern audience? With the actor</p>