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Page 578
... well - made play as " Sardoodledom , " after one of its practitioners , Victorien Sardou , he hails the Ibsenite drama , which , unlike machine - made plays , revolves around problems of character and conduct , jettisons stereotyped ...
... well - made play as " Sardoodledom , " after one of its practitioners , Victorien Sardou , he hails the Ibsenite drama , which , unlike machine - made plays , revolves around problems of character and conduct , jettisons stereotyped ...
Page 636
... well - made play was not confectionery : it had not even the derived virtue of being borrowed from the great playwrights . Its formula grew up in the days when the spread of elementary schooling produced a huge mass of playgoers ...
... well - made play was not confectionery : it had not even the derived virtue of being borrowed from the great playwrights . Its formula grew up in the days when the spread of elementary schooling produced a huge mass of playgoers ...
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... play making which every considerable playwright has been thrusting under their noses night after night for a whole generation . This technical factor in the play is the discussion . Formerly you had in what was called a well - made play ...
... play making which every considerable playwright has been thrusting under their noses night after night for a whole generation . This technical factor in the play is the discussion . Formerly you had in what was called a well - made play ...
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On the Sublime | 76 |
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