History & The Arts
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
...human figure was seen to great advantage against a background of sky. As for the weather, it was turning out, against all expectation, a very fine day. A perfect summer afternoon. (Between the Acts, p.70) Woolf referred to Between the Acts as her ‘trip thro’ English lit. book’ (Bell, 1984, p.329) and it is through the pageant that this really becomes evident. It...