The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1This book represents Maugham's life and philosophy in his own words. It is autobiographical in nature, though most of the work is concerned with Maugham's unique and fascinating opinions on the theatre, writing, metaphysics and the interesting people he encountered in his long and successful career. |
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... dramatist Ipropose,with your permission, to consider one question: To what degree and in virtue of what quality in his genius is Shakespeare a dramatist? What, in other words, constitutes the specifically dramatic quality in his writing ...
... dramatist Ipropose,with your permission, to consider one question: To what degree and in virtue of what quality in his genius is Shakespeare a dramatist? What, in other words, constitutes the specifically dramatic quality in his writing ...
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... dramatists ( among whom Jonson , Marston , Chapman , Dekker , and Webster ) started writing plays in a new and so- phisticated style . They catered to the contemporary taste for satire , thereby constituting a conscious and temporarily ...
... dramatists ( among whom Jonson , Marston , Chapman , Dekker , and Webster ) started writing plays in a new and so- phisticated style . They catered to the contemporary taste for satire , thereby constituting a conscious and temporarily ...
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... dramatist. The violence the revenger visits on the convulsing body of the victim is aestheticised just at the point when the audience is asked to recognise the spiritual and physical pain of all-too human sinners. In the case of The ...
... dramatist. The violence the revenger visits on the convulsing body of the victim is aestheticised just at the point when the audience is asked to recognise the spiritual and physical pain of all-too human sinners. In the case of The ...
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