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Page 88
... audience on them so that the delay in their appearance increases the expectation . No one followed this practice ... audience to concern themselves with one character or two more than with the rest . With the interest thus dispersed it ...
... audience on them so that the delay in their appearance increases the expectation . No one followed this practice ... audience to concern themselves with one character or two more than with the rest . With the interest thus dispersed it ...
Page 90
... audience . Indeed the definition of a play is a piece of writing in dialogue 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 form of the novel in dialogue in ...
... audience . Indeed the definition of a play is a piece of writing in dialogue 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 form of the novel in dialogue in ...
Page 96
... audience , and then , even though their average mentality is higher than the ordinary , they are subject to the reactions by which an audience is gov- erned . They are swayed by emotion rather than by rea- soning . They demand action ...
... audience , and then , even though their average mentality is higher than the ordinary , they are subject to the reactions by which an audience is gov- erned . They are swayed by emotion rather than by rea- soning . They demand action ...
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