What is "playgoer"

Usage examples of "playgoer".

Shakespeare who scorn the theatre and arrogate to themselves in the library, often with some justification, a greater capacity for apprehending and appreciating Shakespeare than is at the command of the ordinary playgoer or actor.

The unintellectual playgoer, to whom Shakespeare will never really prove attractive in any guise, has little or no imagination to exercise, and he only tolerates a performance in the theatre when little or no demand is made on the exercise of the imaginative faculty.

A working dramatist by the circumstance of his calling appeals as soon as the play is written to the playgoer for a sympathetic appreciation.

There is no doubt at all that Shakespeare conspicuously caught the ear of the Elizabethan playgoer at a very early date in his career, and that he held it firmly for life.

Elizabethan playgoer, who was liable to have his faith in the tenderness and gentleness of Desdemona rudely shaken by the irruption on the stage of a brawny, broad-shouldered athlete, masquerading in her sweet name.

Very striking is the contrast offered by the methods of representation accepted with enthusiasm by the Elizabethan playgoer and those deemed essential by the fashionable modern manager.

The needful dramatic illusion was obviously evoked in the playgoer of the past with an ease that is unknown to the present patrons of the stage.

Had Pepys gone at regular intervals, when the theatres were open, he would have been a playgoer at least once a week.

However seductive may be the musico-scenic ornamentation, Shakespeare will never justly affect the mind of the average playgoer unless great or inspired actors are at hand to interpret him.

Within recent memory the English playgoer viewed with impatience any theatrical programme which lacked a Parisian flavour.

The playgoer does not always agree with the player, still less with that unfortunate object, the poor actor-manager.

He was not a playgoer, being of such fastidious taste that he was easily disgusted by the bad filling-up of the inferior parts.

This would seem to place him in irreconcilable opposition to the paying playgoer, from whose point of view the longer the play, the more entertainment he gets for his money.

When one considers how full of his own troubles, how weighed down with the problems of his own existence the average playgoer generally is when he enters a theatre, it is remarkable that dramatists ever find it possible to divert and entertain whole audiences for a space of several hours.

London playgoers, and from the home-reading students of Shakespeare, who are not at present playgoers at all.