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 142
The movies could represent action much more effectively , and action is the essence of drama . The screen gave that artificiality which verse had once given to drama so that a different standard of verisimilitude was set and ...
The movies could represent action much more effectively , and action is the essence of drama . The screen gave that artificiality which verse had once given to drama so that a different standard of verisimilitude was set and ...
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but I cannot but state my belief that the prose drama to which I have given so much of my life will soon be dead . The minor arts , which depend on the manners and customs of the time rather than on deep - seated human necessities ...
but I cannot but state my belief that the prose drama to which I have given so much of my life will soon be dead . The minor arts , which depend on the manners and customs of the time rather than on deep - seated human necessities ...
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In the modern drama I think no one on occasion approached it more closely than Racine . But at the cost of how many a limitation ! It was a cherry stone that he carved with infinite skill . Only idolatry can refuse to see the great ...
In the modern drama I think no one on occasion approached it more closely than Racine . But at the cost of how many a limitation ! It was a cherry stone that he carved with infinite skill . Only idolatry can refuse to see the great ...
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| 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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