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A play does not exist without an audience . Indeed the definition of a play is a piece of writing in dialogue devised to be spoken by actors and heard by an indefinite number of persons . A play written to be read in the study is a form ...
A play does not exist without an audience . Indeed the definition of a play is a piece of writing in dialogue devised to be spoken by actors and heard by an indefinite number of persons . A play written to be read in the study is a form ...
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speaking of the plays in prose with which our modern theatre is alone occupied . I can think of no serious prose play that has survived the generation that gave it birth . A few comedies have haphazardly travelled down a couple of ...
speaking of the plays in prose with which our modern theatre is alone occupied . I can think of no serious prose play that has survived the generation that gave it birth . A few comedies have haphazardly travelled down a couple of ...
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1 ing to do something for which the drama is unsuited ; once they have got a number of persons into the play- house , these become an audience , and then , even though their average mentality is higher than the ordinary , they are ...
1 ing to do something for which the drama is unsuited ; once they have got a number of persons into the play- house , these become an audience , and then , even though their average mentality is higher than the ordinary , they are ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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