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Verse has a specific dramatic value as anyone can see by observing in himself the thrilling effect of a tirade in one of Racine's plays or of any Shakespeare's great set pieces; and this is independent of the sense; ...
Verse has a specific dramatic value as anyone can see by observing in himself the thrilling effect of a tirade in one of Racine's plays or of any Shakespeare's great set pieces; and this is independent of the sense; ...
Page 100
It does not deal with truth but with effect. That willing suspension of disbelief of which Coleridge wrote is essential to it. The importance of truth to the dramatist is that it adds to interest, but to the dramatist truth is only ...
It does not deal with truth but with effect. That willing suspension of disbelief of which Coleridge wrote is essential to it. The importance of truth to the dramatist is that it adds to interest, but to the dramatist truth is only ...
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that there was no intrinsic connection between cause and effect which could be perceived by the mind; and of late the Principle of Indeterminacy, by bringing to view en t.iin events to which apparently no causes can be assigned, ...
that there was no intrinsic connection between cause and effect which could be perceived by the mind; and of late the Principle of Indeterminacy, by bringing to view en t.iin events to which apparently no causes can be assigned, ...
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| Title | the summing up |
| Author | w. somerest maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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