History & The Arts
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
...multiple effects. For example, before the pageant begins Mrs Manresa hears ‘laughter, down among the bushes’ (Between the Acts, p.54); later Isabella thinks ‘They’re getting ready. They’re dressing up in the bushes’ (p.57). Even in the very last section Mrs Swithin wonders ‘The looking-glasses and the voices in the bushes….What did she mean?’ (p.192)....