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39 TO MY MIND , the drama took a wrong turning when the demand for realism led it to abandon the ornament of . verse . Verse has a specific dramatic value as anyone can see by observing in himself the thrilling effect of a tirade in one ...
39 TO MY MIND , the drama took a wrong turning when the demand for realism led it to abandon the ornament of . verse . Verse has a specific dramatic value as anyone can see by observing in himself the thrilling effect of a tirade in one ...
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For the drama is make - believe . It does not deal with truth but with effect . That willing suspen- sion of disbelief of which Coleridge wrote is essential to it . The importance of truth to the dramatist is that it adds to interest ...
For the drama is make - believe . It does not deal with truth but with effect . That willing suspen- sion of disbelief of which Coleridge wrote is essential to it . The importance of truth to the dramatist is that it adds to interest ...
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I have always eschewed the prophetic role and have left to others the reformation of my fellows , but I cannot but state my belief that the prose drama to which I have given so much of my life will soon be dead .
I have always eschewed the prophetic role and have left to others the reformation of my fellows , but I cannot but state my belief that the prose drama to which I have given so much of my life will soon be dead .
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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