Leí por la tarde esto, que me parece muy pertinente para cuando la duda asoma:
I cannot regard every word that Shakespeare is supposed to have written as sacrosanct. He was not a perfect playwright; there can be no such thing. Moreover, he did not aim a perfection [...]. He aimed at vitality, and achieved it intensely. To vitality, then, in the interpretation of his work I would sacrifice preciseness.
On the other hand, the plays have been so maltreated, both in text and construction, and we still remain so ignorant of their stagecraft, that our present task with them is, I think, to discover, even at the cost of some pedantry, hat this stagecraft was. We most learn this, moreover, not in terms of archaeology, but by experimenting upon the living body of the play.
Son palabras del gran director y crítico de teatro Harley Granville Barker (1877-1946), viejo contertulio, y a veces antagonista, de George Bernard Shaw. Es un extracto de sus More Prefaces to Shakespeare.