The Summing Up |
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Page 88
sation of the persons on the stage at the rising of the curtain concentrates the attention of the audience on them so that the delay in their appearance increases the expectation . No one followed this practice more scrupu- lously than ...
sation of the persons on the stage at the rising of the curtain concentrates the attention of the audience on them so that the delay in their appearance increases the expectation . No one followed this practice more scrupu- lously than ...
Page 90
A play that does not appeal to an audience may have merits , but it is no more a play than a mule is a horse . ... Everyone who has had to do with the theatre knows how strangely audiences affect plays ; a matinée audience and an eve- ...
A play that does not appeal to an audience may have merits , but it is no more a play than a mule is a horse . ... Everyone who has had to do with the theatre knows how strangely audiences affect plays ; a matinée audience and an eve- ...
Page 96
When the plays these authors write fail , they claim it is because audiences have not the sense to appreciate them . ... For consider , the play appeals to the audience as a unity , the current that passes infectiously from one per- son ...
When the plays these authors write fail , they claim it is because audiences have not the sense to appreciate them . ... For consider , the play appeals to the audience as a unity , the current that passes infectiously from one per- son ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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