What they best like
Duration: 1 hour 8 mins
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| Description: | Nicholas Hytner wonders why high art shouldn’t be popular and why entertainment shouldn’t be high art. |
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| Created: | 2018-10-25 11:54 |
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| Collection: | Alumni Festival 2018 |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Isabel Ronaldson |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Abstract: | Most theatres, says Shakespeare in a typically tendentious short play by George Bernard Shaw, exist only “to give the sillier sort of people what they best like.” Which, thought Shaw, was reason enough for the state to provide support for the kind of theatres that strive to give them something more than entertainment. |
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