The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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Page 105
William Somerset Maugham. actors , your own agent , a girl friend of yours , and three or four old actors who haven't had a part for twenty years . It is the perfect audience . After each act the director reads out the remarks he has ...
William Somerset Maugham. actors , your own agent , a girl friend of yours , and three or four old actors who haven't had a part for twenty years . It is the perfect audience . After each act the director reads out the remarks he has ...
Page 147
... actors prepare for the dramatist is one that is not often realized . The system of choosing actors to play themselves makes it very difficult to avoid . An author devises a character , then an actor is chosen because he has the traits ...
... actors prepare for the dramatist is one that is not often realized . The system of choosing actors to play themselves makes it very difficult to avoid . An author devises a character , then an actor is chosen because he has the traits ...
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... actors have . Probably the dramatist's best way to cope with this difficulty is to underwrite his parts , lightly sketch- ing the characters and counting on the actors to fill them in with their own individualities . But then he must be ...
... actors have . Probably the dramatist's best way to cope with this difficulty is to underwrite his parts , lightly sketch- ing the characters and counting on the actors to fill them in with their own individualities . But then he must be ...
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