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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... comedy . I made up my mind to write one now . I called it Loaves and Fishes . Its hero was a worldly , ambitious parson and the story dealt with his courtship of a rich widow , his intrigues to get a bishopric and his final capture of a ...
... comedy . I made up my mind to write one now . I called it Loaves and Fishes . Its hero was a worldly , ambitious parson and the story dealt with his courtship of a rich widow , his intrigues to get a bishopric and his final capture of a ...
Page 144
... comedy is concerned , it should be recognized that the demand for realism is unjusti fied . Comedy is an artificial thing and so only the appearance , not the reality , of naturalism is in place . The laugh must be sought for its own ...
... comedy is concerned , it should be recognized that the demand for realism is unjusti fied . Comedy is an artificial thing and so only the appearance , not the reality , of naturalism is in place . The laugh must be sought for its own ...
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... comedy , Shakespeare , Molière and Bernard Shaw , have never jibbed at the farcical . It is the life blood that makes the body of comedy viable . xl These ideas floating vaguely in my mind had little by little made me increasingly ...
... comedy , Shakespeare , Molière and Bernard Shaw , have never jibbed at the farcical . It is the life blood that makes the body of comedy viable . xl These ideas floating vaguely in my mind had little by little made me increasingly ...
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