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>I do not know what led us to purely human factors; R. said Goethe had also tried—in Tasso, for example—to dissociate his characters from historical costume, whereas a similar sort of Venetian play by Hugo is stuffed full of historical local color. R. is inclined to agree with me when I compare Goethe’s Iphigenia with one of Canova’s Greek goddesses. He says the Greeks were fortunate in that their costumes corresponded so well to Nature, whereas in Shakespeare one really believes that men were born the way they appear, with their lordships, etc.
>I do not know what led us to purely human factors; R. said Goethe had also tried—in Tasso, for example—to dissociate his characters from historical costume, whereas a similar sort of Venetian play by Hugo is stuffed full of historical local color. R. is inclined to agree with me when I compare Goethe’s Iphigenia with one of Canova’s Greek goddesses. He says the Greeks were fortunate in that their costumes corresponded so well to Nature, whereas in Shakespeare one really believes that men were born the way they appear, with their lordships, etc.
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