The Summing Up |
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But as the political importance of the aristocracy dwindled the public took less 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 ...
But as the political importance of the aristocracy dwindled the public took less 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 ...
Page 87
I have read most of the books on the subject with 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 ...
I have read most of the books on the subject with 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 ...
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It is the difficulty of directing the 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 ...
It is the difficulty of directing the 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 ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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