Play-making: A Manual of CraftsmanshipSmall, Maynard, 1912 - 419 pagina's |
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absolutely acter action Alfred Sutro artistic audience Bernard Bernick called chance char character clearly Clyde Fitch comedy complex convention course crisis criticism curiosity curtain dialogue Doll's House doubt drama dramatic effect dramatist Elizabethan emotion example exposition fall feel finger-posts first-night Fourchambault French give Greek Hamlet hand Hedda Gabler Henry Arthur Jones husband Ibsen incident instance interest John Gabriel Borkman last act less Little Eyolf logic marriage married means merely mind modern nature obligatory scene opening Oscar Wilde Othello perhaps peripety Pillars of Society play playwright poet possible practice present principle probably reason Rosmer Rosmersholm rule Sarcey scarcely scène à faire second act secret sense Shakespeare Shaw Sir Arthur Pinero situation stage story T. W. Robertson tension theatre theatrical theme thing third act tion tragedy true unity whole wholly woman words write
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Pagina 107 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont, Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. Now, by yond marble heaven, [Kneels] In the due reverence of a sacred vow I here engage my words.
Pagina 205 - Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night : It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden ; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens.
Pagina 40 - No more of that. — I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice : then must you speak Of one, that loved not wisely, but too well ; Of one, not easily jealous, but, being wrought, Perplex'd in the extreme ; of one, whose hand.
Pagina 385 - Trifles, as liberty to pay and receive visits to and from whom I please; to write and receive letters without interrogatories or wry faces on your part; to wear what I please, and choose conversation with regard only to my own taste; to have no obligation upon me to converse with wits that I don't like, because they are your acquaintance, or to be intimate with fools, because they may be your relations...
Pagina 384 - Let us never visit together, nor go to a play together; but let us be very strange and well-bred: let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well bred as if we were not married at all.
Pagina 103 - ... they intend for the action or principal object of it, leaving the former part to be delivered by narration : so that they set the audience, as it were, at the post where the race is to be concluded...
Pagina 328 - ... and though I deny not but such reasons may be found, yet it is a path that is cautiously to be trod, and the poet is to be sure he convinces the audience that the motive is strong enough. As for example, the conversion of the Usurer in The Scornful Lady...
Pagina 381 - In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Pagina 43 - I have grown to believe that he, motionless as he is, does yet live in reality a deeper, more human, and more universal life than the lover who strangles his mistress, the captain who conquers in battle, or "the husband who avenges his honor.