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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I have known dramatists who wandered in every night to the theatre in which their play was being acted . They said they did it in order to see that the cast was not getting slack : I suspect it was because they could never hear their ...
I have known dramatists who wandered in every night to the theatre in which their play was being acted . They said they did it in order to see that the cast was not getting slack : I suspect it was because they could never hear their ...
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for a run in an important theatre . The old hacks , with Clement Scott at their head , abused it soundly ; the critic of the Sunday Times stated that it showed no sign of any talent for the stage . I have forgotten who he was .
for a run in an important theatre . The old hacks , with Clement Scott at their head , abused it soundly ; the critic of the Sunday Times stated that it showed no sign of any talent for the stage . I have forgotten who he was .
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The disadvantage of ideas in the theatre is that if they are acceptable , they are accepted and so kill the play that helped to diffuse them . For nothing is so tiresome in the theatre as to be forced to listen to the exposition of ...
The disadvantage of ideas in the theatre is that if they are acceptable , they are accepted and so kill the play that helped to diffuse them . For nothing is so tiresome in the theatre as to be forced to listen to the exposition of ...
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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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