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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