In Hard Times, the circus is the embodiment of the creative, instinctive, playful spirit that is being crushed in the Victorian world. Dickens saw very clearly the threat that this posed to society a century and half ago. Can we draw parallels in current attempts to drive up standards at the cost of engagement in the arts?Saturday, 19 August 2017
Circus "Play"
In Hard Times, the circus is the embodiment of the creative, instinctive, playful spirit that is being crushed in the Victorian world. Dickens saw very clearly the threat that this posed to society a century and half ago. Can we draw parallels in current attempts to drive up standards at the cost of engagement in the arts?
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