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 124
... audience to concern themselves with one character or two more than with the rest . 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 ...
... audience to concern themselves with one character or two more than with the rest . 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 ...
Page 127
... 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 . It is the public that pays , and if it ...
... 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 . It is the public that pays , and if it ...
Page 131
... audience is affected by mass suggestion and mass suggestion is excited by emotion . I have hazarded the opinion that if you classified the members of an audience from A to Z , starting , say , with the critic of The Times and ending ...
... audience is affected by mass suggestion and mass suggestion is excited by emotion . I have hazarded the opinion that if you classified the members of an audience from A to Z , starting , say , with the critic of The Times and ending ...
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