quite natural and appropriate to our electric age, as The  
Gutenberg Galaxy  may help to explain. We are today as far into 
the electric age as the Elizabethans had advanced into the 
typographical and mechanical age. And we are experiencing the 
same confusions and indecisions which they had felt when 
living simultaneously in two contrasted forms of society and 
experience. Whereas the Elizabethans were poised between 
medieval corporate experience and modern individualism, we 
reverse their pattern by confronting an electric technology 
which would seem to render individualism obsolete and the 
corporate interdependence mandatory.

     Patrick Cruttwell had devoted an entire study (The  
Shakespearean Moment ) to the artistic strategies born of the 
Elizabethan experience of living in a divided world that was 
dissolving and resolving at the same time. We, too, live at such