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Page 114
... comedy . I made up my mind to write one now . I called it Loaves and Fishes . Its hero was a worldly , ambitious parson and the story dealt with his courtship of a rich widow , his intrigues to get a bishopric and his final capture of a ...
... comedy . I made up my mind to write one now . I called it Loaves and Fishes . Its hero was a worldly , ambitious parson and the story dealt with his courtship of a rich widow , his intrigues to get a bishopric and his final capture of a ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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