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... dialogue . When Henry Arthur Jones , then a well - known playwright , read my first novel , he told a friend that in due course I should be one of the most successful dramatists of the day . I suppose he saw in it direct- ness and an ...
... dialogue . When Henry Arthur Jones , then a well - known playwright , read my first novel , he told a friend that in due course I should be one of the most successful dramatists of the day . I suppose he saw in it direct- ness and an ...
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... dialogue devised to be spoken by actors and heard by an in- definite number of persons . A play written to be read in the study is a form of the novel in dialogue in which the author for some reason of his own ( obscure to most of us ) ...
... dialogue devised to be spoken by actors and heard by an in- definite number of persons . A play written to be read in the study is a form of the novel in dialogue in which the author for some reason of his own ( obscure to most of us ) ...
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... dialogue . It has killed com- edy , which depends on verbal wit , which in turn depends on the well - turned phrase . It has thus knocked another nail in the coffin of prose drama . I thought then that in The Sacred Flame I would try to ...
... dialogue . It has killed com- edy , which depends on verbal wit , which in turn depends on the well - turned phrase . It has thus knocked another nail in the coffin of prose drama . I thought then that in The Sacred Flame I would try to ...
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