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Page 124
... does not introduce his principal characters till later , the conversation of the
persons on the stage at the rising of the curtain concentrates the attention of the
audience on them so that the delay in their appearance increases the
expectation .
... does not introduce his principal characters till later , the conversation of the
persons on the stage at the rising of the curtain concentrates the attention of the
audience on them so that the delay in their appearance increases the
expectation .
Page 127
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 . It is the
public ...
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 . It is the
public ...
Page 131
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 ending with ...
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 ending with ...
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| Title | THE SUMMING UP |
| Author | W. SOMER MAUGHAI |
| Published | 1938 |
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