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Page 84
... reality is no more than an appearance trying to pass for poetic reality . The actor is what he is not , he enters into the personage that the author has created for him . The author asks the spectator to believe what is not and what ...
... reality is no more than an appearance trying to pass for poetic reality . The actor is what he is not , he enters into the personage that the author has created for him . The author asks the spectator to believe what is not and what ...
Page 86
... reality . But this reality which it hunts down and brings on to the stage , must be the reality of every day : if the play is to be well written , everyone must recognize its authentic truth . Scenery , costume , language , incidents ...
... reality . But this reality which it hunts down and brings on to the stage , must be the reality of every day : if the play is to be well written , everyone must recognize its authentic truth . Scenery , costume , language , incidents ...
Page 112
... reality of experience and the reality of art are superimposed but do not mingle . This self - evident truth , which is not disputed in the plastic arts or painting , by a false analogy loses its force in the literary arts . Yet we know ...
... reality of experience and the reality of art are superimposed but do not mingle . This self - evident truth , which is not disputed in the plastic arts or painting , by a false analogy loses its force in the literary arts . Yet we know ...
Contents
PART TWO TECHNIQUE | 77 |
THE CHARACTERS | 129 |
PART THREE THE THEMES | 187 |
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