Zangwill, I: Forcing House, or the Cockpit Continued

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Zangwill, I: Forcing House, or the Cockpit Continued

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Excerpt from The Forcing House, or the Cockpit Continued: Tragi-Comedy in Four Acts

Shakespeare said all the world's a stage. It is a pity he spoiled the profundity of the remark by detail ing the sense in which bemeant it. It is in the social comedy that men and women are merely players. (shakespeare should have written players in Greek hypocrites to wit.) And the players themselves, being merely men and women, are equally compelled xviito the hypocrisy of life. The theatre's form of the social comedy is to run a business under the guise of an art. In his green-room slang, the actor has always called his play-house a shop. He should now call it a gambling-house. For it is no longer run even as an industry, but persists by a perpetual change of ruined speculators, lured on by the dazzle of the few lucky punters. Save in two or three theatres, in which the presence of an actor-manager or an ambitious tyro gives a certain constancy, there is no stage in London whose fare is fixed, still less does any exist constituted to receive such pieces as The Forcing House. In your timeless Eternity it may, for aught I know, be already in performance - even on the films - but it was assuredly not inspired by any hopes of gold or glory from the contemporary stage.

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