you avoid it.

 

Be not too tame, neither, but let your discretion be your tutor: suit the action

to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you

o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose

of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as

'twere, the mirror up to Nature, to show Virtue her own feature, Scorn her own

image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now, this

overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but

make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must, in your allowance,

o'erweigh a whole theater of others. Oh, there be players that I have seen

play--and heard others praise, and that highly--not to speak it profanely, that,

neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, or

man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's

journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so

abominably.[3]

 

Force is both a cause and an effect. Inner force, which must precede outer

force, is a combination of four elements, acting progressively. First of all,

_force arises from conviction_. You must be convinced of the truth, or the

importance, or the meaning, of what you are about to say before you can give it

forceful delivery. It must lay strong hold upon your convictions before it can

grip your audience. Conviction convinces.

 

_The Saturday Evening Post_ in an article on "England's T.R."--Winston Spencer