We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pre…

Charles Lamb
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We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it. ✨ Charles Lamb (1835). Essays of Elia, p.156
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We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it. ✨ Charles Lamb (1835). Essays of Elia, p.156

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