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These , the root ideas of poetry , are love , death and the destiny of man . It is not any sort of dramatist who can find anything to say about them that has not been said a thousand times already ; the great truths are too ...
These , the root ideas of poetry , are love , death and the destiny of man . It is not any sort of dramatist who can find anything to say about them that has not been said a thousand times already ; the great truths are too ...
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The importance of truth to the dramatist is that it adds to interest , but to the dramatist truth is only verisimili- tude . It is what he can persuade his audience to accept . If they will believe that a man can doubt his wife's ...
The importance of truth to the dramatist is that it adds to interest , but to the dramatist truth is only verisimili- tude . It is what he can persuade his audience to accept . If they will believe that a man can doubt his wife's ...
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Those dramatists have followed a false trail who by a multitude of little scenes have tried to reproduce the rapid action and varied setting of the cinematograph . It has occurred to me that possibly the dramatist would be wise now to ...
Those dramatists have followed a false trail who by a multitude of little scenes have tried to reproduce the rapid action and varied setting of the cinematograph . It has occurred to me that possibly the dramatist would be wise now to ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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