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... play does not exist without an audience . Indeed the definition of a play is a piece of writing in dialogue devised to be spoken by actors and heard by an indefinite number of persons . A play written to be read in the study is a form ...
... play does not exist without an audience . Indeed the definition of a play is a piece of writing in dialogue devised to be spoken by actors and heard by an indefinite number of persons . A play written to be read in the study is a form ...
Page 136
... plays . For consider , the play appeals to the audience as a unity , the cur- rent that passes infectiously from one person to another is essential to the dramatist ; he wants to excite a contagion ; he must take people out of them ...
... plays . For consider , the play appeals to the audience as a unity , the cur- rent that passes infectiously from one person to another is essential to the dramatist ; he wants to excite a contagion ; he must take people out of them ...
Page 137
... play his part in the play , but to watch it from the outside . The result is that he does not see the play they see because he has not , as they have , acted in it . It is natural enough then that he should ask for different things in a ...
... play his part in the play , but to watch it from the outside . The result is that he does not see the play they see because he has not , as they have , acted in it . It is natural enough then that he should ask for different things in a ...
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