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Verse has a specific dramatic value as anyone can see by observing in himself the thrilling effect of a tirade in one of Racine's plays or of any of Shakespeare's great set pieces ; and this is independent of the sense ; it is due to ...
Verse has a specific dramatic value as anyone can see by observing in himself the thrilling effect of a tirade in one of Racine's plays or of any of Shakespeare's great set pieces ; and this is independent of the sense ; it is due to ...
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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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est reluctance that I have even served on commit- tees formed to effect some aim of passing interest . Thinking that not the whole of life was long enough to learn to write well , I have been unwilling to give to other activities time ...
est reluctance that I have even served on commit- tees formed to effect some aim of passing interest . Thinking that not the whole of life was long enough to learn to write well , I have been unwilling to give to other activities time ...
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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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