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... interest in it . Playgoers began to be ready to observe the actions of people of their own class , the well - to - do merchants and professional men who were then conducting the affairs of the country ; and the rule , though never ...
... interest in it . Playgoers began to be ready to observe the actions of people of their own class , the well - to - do merchants and professional men who were then conducting the affairs of the country ; and the rule , though never ...
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... interest . The best way of learning how to write a play is to see one of your own produced . That will teach you how to write lines that the actors find easy to say and , if you have an ear , how far you can carry the rhythm of a ...
... interest . The best way of learning how to write a play is to see one of your own produced . That will teach you how to write lines that the actors find easy to say and , if you have an ear , how far you can carry the rhythm of a ...
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... interest that makes it so hard to write the plays that are known as plays of atmosphere . The best known of them , of course , are Chekhov's . Since the interest is not concentrated on two or three persons , but on a group , and since ...
... interest that makes it so hard to write the plays that are known as plays of atmosphere . The best known of them , of course , are Chekhov's . Since the interest is not concentrated on two or three persons , but on a group , and since ...
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