The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1This book represents Maugham's life and philosophy in his own words. It is autobiographical in nature, though most of the work is concerned with Maugham's unique and fascinating opinions on the theatre, writing, metaphysics and the interesting people he encountered in his long and successful career. |
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Page 127
... 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 in- definite 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 in- definite number of persons . A play written to be read in the study is a form ...
Page 134
... plays in verse ; the greatest and noblest of the arts can lend its own life to the hum- ble partner ; I am speaking of the plays in prose with which our modern theatre is alone occupied . I can think of no serious prose play that has ...
... plays in verse ; the greatest and noblest of the arts can lend its own life to the hum- ble partner ; I am speaking of the plays in prose with which our modern theatre is alone occupied . I can think of no serious prose play that has ...
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 ...
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