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Page 140
... drama took a wrong turning when the demand for realism led it to abandon the ornament of verse . Verse has a specific dramatic value as anyone can see by observing in himself the thrilling effect of a tirade in one of Racine's plays or ...
... drama took a wrong turning when the demand for realism led it to abandon the ornament of verse . Verse has a specific dramatic value as anyone can see by observing in himself the thrilling effect of a tirade in one of Racine's plays or ...
Page 143
... drama should not suffer the same fate . It may be said that the screen can never give exactly the sympathetic thrill you feel when you see living persons in flesh and blood before you . It might very well have been said that strings and ...
... drama should not suffer the same fate . It may be said that the screen can never give exactly the sympathetic thrill you feel when you see living persons in flesh and blood before you . It might very well have been said that strings and ...
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... drama I think no one on occasion approached it more closely than Racine . But at the cost of how many a limitation ! It was a cherry stone that he carved with infinite skill . Only idolatry can refuse to see the great shortcomings in ...
... drama I think no one on occasion approached it more closely than Racine . But at the cost of how many a limitation ! It was a cherry stone that he carved with infinite skill . Only idolatry can refuse to see the great shortcomings in ...
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