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Literary Imagination Advance Access originally published online on May 26, 2007
Literary Imagination 2007 9(2):207-240; doi:10.1093/litimag/imm043
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Hercules Belabored

Instructions to the Engraver

For the Theatre—But How? With a Preface by the Dramatist-Friend

David Cole

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   Introduction: For the Theatre—But How?
 
by the Dramatist-Friend

Unlike the author of this introduction, the Author of these Instructions never thinks—or at least till recently scarcely thought—of the theatre. So that, when I first put it to him that the text he had brought forth was, no less than one of my own, a dramatic one, he was frankly incredulous: How, he demanded, could he have all this while been "writing a play" yet oblivious of doing so? "No, in fact," he countered, "what I have ‘brought forth’ is, first of all, a tale—a recasting of the Hercules-story, in which the hero must devise his own Last Labor—followed in brief space by some words of instruction to my engraver regarding illustration of that tale. Now at length I have resolved to publish the instructions and withhold the tale. What is there in all this to set anyone's thoughts running on theatre?"

Actually, theatre is never . . . [Full Text of this Article]

To the Engraver
On the Final Plate

   Afterword: Once More to the Engraver
 

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