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Page 121
... comedy and by the epithet foolishly think they condemn it . It is drama not of action , but of conversation . It ... comedy must consider from the standpoint of comedy is himself . xxxy I had by then made up my mind on [ 121 ] THE SUMMING UP.
... comedy and by the epithet foolishly think they condemn it . It is drama not of action , but of conversation . It ... comedy must consider from the standpoint of comedy is himself . xxxy I had by then made up my mind on [ 121 ] THE SUMMING UP.
Page 144
... comedy is concerned , it should be recognized that the demand for realism is unjustified . Comedy is an artificial thing and so only the appearance , not the reality , of naturalism is in place . The laugh must be sought for its own ...
... comedy is concerned , it should be recognized that the demand for realism is unjustified . Comedy is an artificial thing and so only the appearance , not the reality , of naturalism is in place . The laugh must be sought for its own ...
Page 145
... comedy , Shakespeare , Molière and Bernard Shaw , have never jibbed at the farcical . It is the life blood that makes the body of comedy viable . xl These ideas floating vaguely in my mind had little by little made me increasingly ...
... comedy , Shakespeare , Molière and Bernard Shaw , have never jibbed at the farcical . It is the life blood that makes the body of comedy viable . xl These ideas floating vaguely in my mind had little by little made me increasingly ...
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