Beware the easy spells of oratory; Prime ministers and army officers may seek to inspire and persuade, but today we are far more suspicious of rhetoric.

The Evening Standard (London, England) | March 25, 2003| | Copyright

Byline: BRIAN SEWELL

IT is in the theatre that the human voice and what it has to say should engage our emotions, rouse our passions for such virtuous abstractions as honour, heroism, patriotism and noble sacrifice, and free us from the dull restraint of reason. The theatre is now the only place in which we should gather to hear rhetoric and oratory, to be reminded of the heart and stomach of the Great Eliza - not now by the Thames at Tilbury, and certainly not now in that den of vipers, the House of Commons. The only exception must be on the battlefield, and then ...

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