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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A play does not exist without an audience . Indeed the definition of a play is a piece of writing in dialogue a devised to be spoken by actors and heard by an indefinite number of persons . A play written to be read in the study is a ...
A play does not exist without an audience . Indeed the definition of a play is a piece of writing in dialogue a devised to be spoken by actors and heard by an indefinite number of persons . A play written to be read in the study is a ...
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When I say that plays are ephemeral , I am of course not speaking of plays in verse ; the greatest and noblest of the arts can lend its own ... I can think of no serious prose play that has survived the generation that gave it birth .
When I say that plays are ephemeral , I am of course not speaking of plays in verse ; the greatest and noblest of the arts can lend its own ... I can think of no serious prose play that has survived the generation that gave it birth .
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Let no one think that commercial plays succeed because they are bad plays . ... But that this need not be the only merit of the commercial play is shown by those of Lope de Vega , Shakespeare and Molière . xxxviii If I have thus ...
Let no one think that commercial plays succeed because they are bad plays . ... But that this need not be the only merit of the commercial play is shown by those of Lope de Vega , Shakespeare and Molière . xxxviii If I have thus ...
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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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