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For the moment I will consider the audience . All the best dramatists have written with their eye on it and though they have more often spoken of it with contempt than with good will they have known that they were dependent on it .
For the moment I will consider the audience . All the best dramatists have written with their eye on it and though they have more often spoken of it with contempt than with good will they have known that they were dependent on it .
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Now , the fact that the general mentality of an audience is so very much lower than that of its more intellectual members is a factor that the author must deal with . I think it definitely reduces prose drama to a minor place .
Now , the fact that the general mentality of an audience is so very much lower than that of its more intellectual members is a factor that the author must deal with . I think it definitely reduces prose drama to a minor place .
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But an audience is affected by mass suggestion and mass suggestion is excited by emotion . I have hazarded the opinion that if you classified the members of an audience from A to Z , starting , say , with the critic of The Times and ...
But an audience is affected by mass suggestion and mass suggestion is excited by emotion . I have hazarded the opinion that if you classified the members of an audience from A to Z , starting , say , with the critic of The Times and ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | W. Heinemann, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0434456101, 9780434456109 |
| Length | 317 pages |
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