How to Write a Play : Letters from Augier, Banville, Dennery, Dumas, Gondinet, Labiche, Legouve, Pailleron, Sardou, Zola.
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How to Write a Play : Letters from Augier, Banville, Dennery, Dumas, Gondinet, Labiche, Legouve, Pailleron, Sardou, Zola.
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Various.
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9781775567929
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1 online resource (48 pages)
Contents:
Title -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. - From Émile Augier. -- II. - From Théodore de Banville. -- III. - From Adolphe Dennery. -- IV. - From Alexandre Dumas Fils. -- V. - From Edmond Gondinet. -- VI. - From Eugène Labiche. -- VII. - From Ernest Legouvé. -- VIII. - From Édouard Pailleron. -- IX. - From Victorien Sardou. -- X. - From Émile Zola. -- Notes.
Abstract:
An education is likely to take the dramatist a great deal of time - unless he is so fortunate as to be a genius. Perhaps the main difference between the play-writing genius and the rest of us is that he can associate but briefly with audiences and know it all, whereas we must spend our lives at it and know but little. I have never happened to hear of a genius of this description; but that is no argument against the possibility of his existence. As to the talented authors of these...
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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