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Page 127
... dialogue devised to be spoken by actors and heard by an in- definite number of persons . A play written to be read in the study is a form of the novel in dialogue in which the author for some reason of his own ( obscure to most of us ) ...
... dialogue devised to be spoken by actors and heard by an in- definite number of persons . A play written to be read in the study is a form of the novel in dialogue in which the author for some reason of his own ( obscure to most of us ) ...
Page 156
... 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 com- edy , 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 com- edy , 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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