The Summing Up |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 32
Page 132
... dramatist who is lucky enough to have been born with the faculty of put- ting things so that they carry across the footlights will also be an original thinker . He would not be a dramatist if his mind did not work in the concrete . He ...
... dramatist who is lucky enough to have been born with the faculty of put- ting things so that they carry across the footlights will also be an original thinker . He would not be a dramatist if his mind did not work in the concrete . He ...
Page 139
... dramatists pretended , for after all there were politics , golf , getting on with one's job and all sorts of other things , it was a welcome relief to come upon a dramatist for whom love was a tiresome , secondary business , a quick ...
... dramatists pretended , for after all there were politics , golf , getting on with one's job and all sorts of other things , it was a welcome relief to come upon a dramatist for whom love was a tiresome , secondary business , a quick ...
Page 141
... dramatist is that it adds to interest , but to the dramatist truth is only verisimilitude . It is what he can persuade his audience to accept . If they will believe that a man can doubt his wife's fidelity because someone tells him he ...
... dramatist is that it adds to interest , but to the dramatist truth is only verisimilitude . It is what he can persuade his audience to accept . If they will believe that a man can doubt his wife's fidelity because someone tells him he ...
Common terms and phrases
accept action actors admire ęsthetic amusing artist asked audience beauty believe better character comedy common conscious course crasy critic deal delight dialogue discover Dr Johnson drama dramatist effect emotion English evil exciting existence experience eyes fact feeling fiction forced French gave George Meredith Gerald du Maurier gift give Goethe hard Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas idiosyncrasy imagination important instinct interest invention knew Kuno Fischer Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold meaning mind ness never notion novel novelist one's pattern perfect perhaps philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense sometimes sort soul spirit St Thomas's Hospital Stendhal story success suppose tell theatre things thought tion told truth verse Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth