I entirely separate the two questions—first, how did the Manager of the Globe Theatre have the King's Seat at the Feast filled; and second, what does the highest poetical Canon deliver. I speak now, but to the first. Now, here the rule is—"the audience must understand, and at once, what that which they see and hear means"—that Rule must govern the art of the drama in the Manager's practice. You allow that, Talboys?
TALBOYS.
I do.
BULLER.
Rash—Talboys—rash: he's getting you into a net.
NORTH.
That is not my way, Buller. Well, then, suppose Macbeth acted for the first time to an audience, who are to establish it for a stock-play or to damn it. Would the Manager commit the whole power of a scene which is perhaps the most—singly—effective of the whole Play—
BULLER.
No—no—not the most effective of the whole Play—
NORTH.