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Page 116
... play that does not appeal to an audience may have merits , but it is no more a 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 ...
... play that does not appeal to an audience may have merits , but it is no more a 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 ...
Page 124
... 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 ...
Page 136
... play and lures them by ingenuity to support the necessarily dull passages of exposition and the joins , the introductions to dramatic episodes , that no play can avoid ; he takes account of the facility with which their attention ...
... play and lures them by ingenuity to support the necessarily dull passages of exposition and the joins , the introductions to dramatic episodes , that no play can avoid ; he takes account of the facility with which their attention ...
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