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It is very unlikely that the dramatist who is lucky enough to have been born with the faculty of put- ting things so that they carry across the footlights will also be an original thinker . He would not be a dramatist if his mind did ...
It is very unlikely that the dramatist who is lucky enough to have been born with the faculty of put- ting things so that they carry across the footlights will also be an original thinker . He would not be a dramatist if his mind did ...
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... though all very well in its way , was not really quite so important as the dramatists pretended , for after all there ... getting on with one's job and all sorts of other things , it was a welcome relief to come upon a dramatist for ...
... though all very well in its way , was not really quite so important as the dramatists pretended , for after all there ... getting on with one's job and all sorts of other things , it was a welcome relief to come upon a dramatist for ...
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In that artificial medium life is not presented in a word - for - word translation , but in a free rendering , and thus the dramatist has ample scope for the effects of which his art is capa- ble . For the drama is make - believe .
In that artificial medium life is not presented in a word - for - word translation , but in a free rendering , and thus the dramatist has ample scope for the effects of which his art is capa- ble . For the drama is make - believe .
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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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