The Summing Up |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 31
Page 113
With the interest thus dispersed it is possible that the audience will not feel warmly about any of the persons of the play , and since the author must beware that none of his threads is more important than the other , and thus attracts ...
With the interest thus dispersed it is possible that the audience will not feel warmly about any of the persons of the play , and since the author must beware that none of his threads is more important than the other , and thus attracts ...
Page 115
Audiences in the past seem to have been willing to sit out scenes that were elaborately developed and to listen to ... XXX VI A PLAY is the result of a collaboration between the author , the actors , the audience , and , I suppose one ...
Audiences in the past seem to have been willing to sit out scenes that were elaborately developed and to listen to ... XXX VI A PLAY is the result of a collaboration between the author , the actors , the audience , and , I suppose one ...
Page 116
A play that does not appeal to an audience may have merits , but it is no more a play than a mule is a horse . ... Everyone who has had to do with the theatre knows how strangely audiences affect plays ; a matinée audience and an ...
A play that does not appeal to an audience may have merits , but it is no more a play than a mule is a horse . ... Everyone who has had to do with the theatre knows how strangely audiences affect plays ; a matinée audience and an ...
What people are saying - Write a review
Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified
LibraryThing Review
User Review - hellbent - LibraryThingThis is one of the best books I read for providing a philosophical view of life. It is a book I intend to read again. Read full review
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
able accept action actors admire appearance artist asked attention audience beauty believe better called character claim common concerned course critic deal death difficult discover drama dramatist easy effect emotion English excited existence experience eyes fact feel forced French gave gift give given hard human ideas imagination important instinct interest knew knowledge known least less literature live longer look matter meaning mind nature never notion novel novelist offer once one's passed perhaps persons philosophers picture play pleasure possible produced prose reader reason seemed seen sense sometimes sort speak spirit story success suppose taken tell theatre things thought tion told took truth turn universe wanted whole write written wrote young youth
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 310 pages |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |