Planche seems to have been very concerned with teaching in his theater. Is it accurate to assume this was the most important issue to him?
Not really. He was very concerned, it is true, with scholarship and with things like accuracy in portraying historical or foreign subjects. (This is actually far more evident as he grew older than it is at the beginning of his career.) But scholarship, to him, was a thing fine and beautiful in itself. To bring his researches into stage and costume design, or even into stage direction, was to him like bringing a superior command of English to his writing–it was a way of enhancing and perfecting his work. Like most “respectable” people of his time, he publically (and with evident sincerity) sought to reinforce social ethics through his works. However, he did not seek to sacrifice a laugh for the sake of a moral, as Ben Jonson did at the conclusion of “Volpone,” where an amiable trickster is condemned to death. It is rather the hallmark of his approach that whatever mattered most to him, and to his colleagues, is what came to be the substance of the play and its staging. Where it require
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