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Page 153
... play is like Shakespeare and the Elizabethan dramatists , Congreve and Wycherley , Goldsmith and the School for Scandal . The char- acters have become labels to attach to people and a hundred different lines have grown into proverbs ...
... play is like Shakespeare and the Elizabethan dramatists , Congreve and Wycherley , Goldsmith and the School for Scandal . The char- acters have become labels to attach to people and a hundred different lines have grown into proverbs ...
Page 195
... plays ; but it exasperated him to have his best play , The Tyranny of Tears , ascribed to Oscar Wilde . For my part I cannot imagine how such a notion could ever have been as widely spread as it certainly was . No one could have had it ...
... plays ; but it exasperated him to have his best play , The Tyranny of Tears , ascribed to Oscar Wilde . For my part I cannot imagine how such a notion could ever have been as widely spread as it certainly was . No one could have had it ...
Page 300
... player . He was a stoutish man of forty , clean- shaven , with all the front part of his head shaven too ; his hair , long at the back , was tied in a knot . He was dressed in a dhoty and a collarless shirt . He sat on the floor to play ...
... player . He was a stoutish man of forty , clean- shaven , with all the front part of his head shaven too ; his hair , long at the back , was tied in a knot . He was dressed in a dhoty and a collarless shirt . He sat on the floor to play ...
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