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No one can judge a play without one who has studied a theater, and from experience has noticed what effect a comedy has on the stage: And, when it is, one can not reflect much on their judgments, which sit at home and criticize in their writing-rooms, without having seen a play's performance; for the same can not judge without the style, about moral sentents, and the regularity of a piece, as experience teaches that a comedy, which according to all academic rules is arranged, is no comedy. For many a play, which by reading seems to be of no importance, has the most excellent effect on the stage. The weight and validity of a play is therefore not based on the critics of learned journalists, but on the applause of the spectators: when I say the spectators, I mean only those who have a natural and unspoiled taste.
Ludvig Holberg
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