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... dialogue . When Henry Arthur Jones , then a well - known playwright , read my first novel , he told a friend that in due course I should be one of the most successful dramatists of the day . I suppose he saw in it directness and an ...
... dialogue . When Henry Arthur Jones , then a well - known playwright , read my first novel , he told a friend that in due course I should be one of the most successful dramatists of the day . I suppose he saw in it directness and an ...
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... dialogue than I had been in the habit of using . I wrote my first full - length play in 1898 , my last in 1933. In that time I have seen dialogue change from the turgid , pedantic speech of Pinero , from the elegant artificiality of ...
... dialogue than I had been in the habit of using . I wrote my first full - length play in 1898 , my last in 1933. In that time I have seen dialogue change from the turgid , pedantic speech of Pinero , from the elegant artificiality of ...
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... dialogue . It has killed comedy , which depends on verbal wit , which in turn depends on the well - turned phrase . It has thus knocked another nail in the coffin of prose drama . I thought then that in The Sacred Flame I would try to ...
... dialogue . It has killed comedy , which depends on verbal wit , which in turn depends on the well - turned phrase . It has thus knocked another nail in the coffin of prose drama . I thought then that in The Sacred Flame I would try to ...
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