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... dialogue should help . An actor will sometimes say to an author : " Couldn't you give me a word or two more in this speech ? It seems to take away all the point of my line if I have nothing else to say . " As I listened to my don's ...
... dialogue should help . An actor will sometimes say to an author : " Couldn't you give me a word or two more in this speech ? It seems to take away all the point of my line if I have nothing else to say . " As I listened to my don's ...
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... dialogue than I had been in the habit of using . I wrote my first full - length play in 1898 , my last in 1933. In that time I have seen dialogue change from the turgid , pedantic speech of Pinero , from the elegant artificiality of ...
... dialogue than I had been in the habit of using . I wrote my first full - length play in 1898 , my last in 1933. In that time I have seen dialogue change from the turgid , pedantic speech of Pinero , from the elegant artificiality of ...
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... dialogue is eked out with shrugs , waves of the hand and grimaces . In thus yielding to the fashion it seems to me that dramatists have gravely handi- capped themselves . For this slangy , clipped , broken speech they reproduce is only ...
... dialogue is eked out with shrugs , waves of the hand and grimaces . In thus yielding to the fashion it seems to me that dramatists have gravely handi- capped themselves . For this slangy , clipped , broken speech they reproduce is only ...
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