The Barber of Seville (play) - Characters

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“Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga—stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.”
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“It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.”
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“Thus we may define the real as that whose characters are independent of what anybody may think them to be.”
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