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Page 134
... course not speaking of plays in verse ; the greatest and noblest of the arts can lend its own life to the hum- ble partner ; I am speaking of the plays in prose with which our modern theatre is alone occupied . I can think of no serious ...
... course not speaking of plays in verse ; the greatest and noblest of the arts can lend its own life to the hum- ble partner ; I am speaking of the plays in prose with which our modern theatre is alone occupied . I can think of no serious ...
Page 138
... course peculiar to himself , that had never before found expression on the stage . The English , whatever they were in the Elizabethan era , are not an amorous race . Love with them is more sentimental than passionate . They are of course ...
... course peculiar to himself , that had never before found expression on the stage . The English , whatever they were in the Elizabethan era , are not an amorous race . Love with them is more sentimental than passionate . They are of course ...
Page 144
... course a play of this kind would need a dramatist who was also a poet . Perhaps the best chance the realistic dramatist has today is to occupy himself with what , till now at all events , the screen has not succeeded very well in ...
... course a play of this kind would need a dramatist who was also a poet . Perhaps the best chance the realistic dramatist has today is to occupy himself with what , till now at all events , the screen has not succeeded very well in ...
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