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nineteenth-century critics “to treat Shakespeare as Ibsen is
more appropriately treated: they fastened upon his characters
as if they were historical personages, examining their
psychology. . . . There was no attempt to consider the
historical anomaly by which a naturalistic drama could so
quickly have arisen out of a conventional tradition.” (pp. 13­
14) In the same way Hollywood could rise quickly because it
built on the nineteenth century novel.
The portability of the book, like that of the easel-painting,
added much to the new cult of individualism.
* Very arbitrarily we shall move on to a physical aspect of
the printed book that contributed a great deal to individualism.
I mean its portability. As easel painting deinstitutionalized
pictures, so printing broke library monopoly. Moses Hadas