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Page 81
... comedy . I made up my mind to write one now . I called it Loaves and Fishes . Its hero was a worldly , ambitious parson and the story dealt with his courtship of a rich widow , his intrigues to get a bishopric and his final cap- ture of ...
... comedy . I made up my mind to write one now . I called it Loaves and Fishes . Its hero was a worldly , ambitious parson and the story dealt with his courtship of a rich widow , his intrigues to get a bishopric and his final cap- ture of ...
Page 86
... comedy must consider from the standpoint of comedy is himself . 35 I HAD BY THEN made up my mind on many things con- nected with the drama . One of the conclusions I had come to was that a prose play was scarcely less ephemeral than a ...
... comedy must consider from the standpoint of comedy is himself . 35 I HAD BY THEN made up my mind on many things con- nected with the drama . One of the conclusions I had come to was that a prose play was scarcely less ephemeral than a ...
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... comedy is concerned , it should be recog- nized that the demand for realism is unjustified . Comedy is an artificial thing and so only the appearance , not the reality , of naturalism is in place . The laugh must be sought for its own ...
... comedy is concerned , it should be recog- nized that the demand for realism is unjustified . Comedy is an artificial thing and so only the appearance , not the reality , of naturalism is in place . The laugh must be sought for its own ...
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