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It is inept to say again what Shaw has said so well . xxxix To my mind , the 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 ...
It is inept to say again what Shaw has said so well . xxxix To my mind , the 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 ...
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but I cannot but state my belief that the prose drama to which I have given so much of my life will soon be dead . The minor arts , which depend on the manners and customs of the time rather than on deep - seated human necessities ...
but I cannot but state my belief that the prose drama to which I have given so much of my life will soon be dead . The minor arts , which depend on the manners and customs of the time rather than on deep - seated human necessities ...
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In the modern 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 ...
In the modern 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 ...
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| Title | THE SUMMING UP |
| Author | W. SOMER MAUGHAI |
| Published | 1938 |
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