ABSTRACT
When one reads a play and very often one does read a play, anyway one did read Shakespeare’s plays a great deal at least I did, it was always necessary to keep one’s finger in the list of characters for at least the whole first act, and in a way it is necessary to do the same when the play is played. One has one’s programme for that and beside one has to become or has become acquainted with the actors as an actor and one has one’s programme too for that. And so the introduction to the characters on the stage has a great many different sides to it. And this has again a great deal to do with the nervousness of the theatre excitement….
