Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> I read the review in the Washington Post. Shakespeare
> and the opera used to be enjoyed by the masses.
> Shakespeare began to be made to be something for the
> sophisticated and symphony orchestras, endowed by the
> rich, became the music for the educated. H
HAMLET: I heard thee speak me a speech once, but it was never acted; or,
if it was, not above once; for the play, I remember, pleased not the
million; 'twas caviare to the general: but it was--as I received it, and
others, whose judgments in such matters cried in the top of mine--an
excellent play, well digested in the scenes, set down with as much
modesty as cunning.
{_Hamlet_, Act II, Scene II)
There were radical changes in the meaning and ideological framework for
the distinction, but it always existed.
Carrol
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