The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1The reminiscences of the author's lifetime; insight on life and art; education, discipline and training of a writer. |
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Page 131
... play than a mule is a horse . ( Alas , all of us dramatists from time to time give birth to these unsatisfactory hybrids . ) Everyone who has had to do with the theatre knows how strangely audiences affect plays ; a matinée audience and ...
... play than a mule is a horse . ( Alas , all of us dramatists from time to time give birth to these unsatisfactory hybrids . ) Everyone who has had to do with the theatre knows how strangely audiences affect plays ; a matinée audience and ...
Page 140
... plays . For consider , the play appeals to the audience as a unity , the current 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 themselves ...
... plays . For consider , the play appeals to the audience as a unity , the current 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 themselves ...
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... 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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