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Page 80
... deal about the technique of playwriting , I had achieved nothing . After its two performances my play was dead . My name was known to the small body of people who were interested in the experimental theatre and if I had written suitable ...
... deal about the technique of playwriting , I had achieved nothing . After its two performances my play was dead . My name was known to the small body of people who were interested in the experimental theatre and if I had written suitable ...
Page 111
... deal with , for he can only show this by speech , and it is impossible to portray people of any subtlety of mind or intricacy of emotion when his dialogue is but a sort of spoken hieroglyph . He is insensibly led to choose as his ...
... deal with , for he can only show this by speech , and it is impossible to portray people of any subtlety of mind or intricacy of emotion when his dialogue is but a sort of spoken hieroglyph . He is insensibly led to choose as his ...
Page 196
... deal with his environment and that for long ages it reached no higher development than was needed to deal with the vital problems of his practice . But it seems in course of time to have outgrown his immediate needs , and with the rise ...
... deal with his environment and that for long ages it reached no higher development than was needed to deal with the vital problems of his practice . But it seems in course of time to have outgrown his immediate needs , and with the rise ...
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