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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... curtain concentrates the attention of the audience on them so that the delay in their appearance increases the expectation . No one followed this practice more scrupulously than that very competent dramatist William Shakespeare .
... curtain concentrates the attention of the audience on them so that the delay in their appearance increases the expectation . No one followed this practice more scrupulously than that very competent dramatist William Shakespeare .
Page 127
For the moment I will consider the audience . All the best dramatists have written with their eye on it and though they have more often spoken of it with contempt than with good will they have known that they were dependent on it .
For the moment I will consider the audience . All the best dramatists have written with their eye on it and though they have more often spoken of it with contempt than with good will they have known that they were dependent on it .
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Now , the fact that the general mentality of an audience is so very much lower than that of its more intellectual members is a factor that the author must deal with . I think it definitely reduces prose drama to a minor place .
Now , the fact that the general mentality of an audience is so very much lower than that of its more intellectual members is a factor that the author must deal with . I think it definitely reduces prose drama to a minor place .
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Summing Up Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham Works, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Arno Press, 1977 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 18 May 2018 |
| ISBN | 0405078307, 9780405078309 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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