Part I, Section XXIV
Christian Morals (first pub. post. 1716)
Source: The Dark Is Rising (1965-1977), Silver on the Tree (1977), Chapter 9 “The City” (p. 139)
Source: The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business/The Manticore/World of Wonders
“This theatre is your theatre. You are responsible for its creation and its progress.”
the bottom of an original program for the 1936 WPA presentation of Voodoo MacBeth http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/ftsmth00.html|at.
“I believe in neither a director’s nor a writer’s theatre, but a theatre of intelligent audiences.”
Letter to George Devine (10 March 1964), printed in Kenneth Tynan : A Life by Dominic Shellard<!-- Yale University Press, 2003, --> , p. 292
Context: I believe in neither a director’s nor a writer’s theatre, but a theatre of intelligent audiences. I count myself as a member of an intelligent audience, and I wrote to you as such. That you should disagree with me I can understand, but that you should resent my expressing my opinions is something that frankly amazes me. I thought we had outgrown the idea of theatre as a mystic rite born of secret communion between author, director, actors and an empty auditorium.
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
“And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.”
Act II, sc. i.
The True Widow (1679)
“The noblest motive is the public good.”
Vincit amor patriae.
Richard Steele, in The Spectator. Compare Aeneid 6.823: Vincet amor patriae ("Love of country shall prevail").
"In The City of God Augustine quoted the line but changed the verb from the future to the present tense (vincet › vincit). That form became a traditional quotation, often reprinted and reproduced on medals, monuments, and family crests. [...] "Vincit amor patriae" appeared at the head of Spectator no. 200 (October 19, 1711) without translation. The essays from the Spectator were published and republished as books as early as 1713. To assist readers who lacked Latin or Greek, the editors of the 1744 edition provided English translations for its epigraphs; to "Vincit amor patriae" was added "The noblest Motive is the Publick Good." It stuck. The translation was modernized and made its way into innumerable texts and onto public buildings. It is inscribed on the ceiling of the south corridor of the Library of Congress and attributed to Virgil. A mistranslation became a quotation." —Willis Goth Regier, Quotology (2010), pp. 40–41.
Misattributed
written text with brush, in her last painting JHM no. 4925 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charlotte_Salomon_-_JHM_4925.jpg: (558) 'Life? or Theater..', p. 824
Charlotte Salomon - Life? or Theater?
