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Art and Real Life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

H. O. Mounce
H. O. Mounce
Affiliation:
University College of Swansea
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In 1954 F. R. Leavis wrote to the Times Literary Supplement taking issue with one of its reviewers. The reviewer had contrasted Leavis's approach to Shakespeare with that of Empson and Bradley. The latter, the reviewer had said, ‘like the plain man, or the audience in a theatre, cannot help considering the situation [in one of Shakespeare's plays] as “actual” and the characters as “real”’. Leavis, the reviewer had implied, treats the situation and characters somewhat differently.

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Articles
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Philosophy , Volume 55 , Issue 212 , April 1980 , pp. 183 - 192
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1980

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