| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 38412 |
| QUOTATION: | The deeply thoughtful and human consciousness of a Macbeth is not found in comedy. Comic action tends to be as Bergson described it, physical or purblind, instead of highly conscious. Similarly, the great comic actor specializes in the presentation of mental obtuseness. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | William G. McCollom (b. 1911), U.S. critic, educator. The Divine Average: A View of Comedy, ch. 1, Case-Western Reserve University Press (1971). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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