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It was still impossible to interest the public in the lower classes . Novels and plays that dealt with them were very generally considered sor- did . It will be curious to see if now that these classes have acquired political power the ...
It was still impossible to interest the public in the lower classes . Novels and plays that dealt with them were very generally considered sor- did . It will be curious to see if now that these classes have acquired political power the ...
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subject with interest . The best way of learning how to write a play is to see one of your own produced . That will teach you how to write lines that the actors find easy to say and , if you have an ear , how far you can carry the ...
subject with interest . The best way of learning how to write a play is to see one of your own produced . That will teach you how to write lines that the actors find easy to say and , if you have an ear , how far you can carry the ...
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It is a psychological trait in human nature that interest is established in the persons whom the playwright introduces at the be- ginning of his play so firmly that if the interest is then switched off to other persons who enter upon ...
It is a psychological trait in human nature that interest is established in the persons whom the playwright introduces at the be- ginning of his play so firmly that if the interest is then switched off to other persons who enter upon ...
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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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