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Page 234
... kind - hearted doctor in it ; and , to my joy , it fairly dominated his next play , The Circle . There the flavour of it was a little too pungent for palates which had relished Lady Fred- erick , etc. Yet in America , oddly enough , The ...
... kind - hearted doctor in it ; and , to my joy , it fairly dominated his next play , The Circle . There the flavour of it was a little too pungent for palates which had relished Lady Fred- erick , etc. Yet in America , oddly enough , The ...
Page 306
... kind of play depends upon our failing to guess which of the characters is the interesting criminal . It is quite a recent discovery that the stage can thus supply precisely the same pleasure as the detective story . The aim of the ...
... kind of play depends upon our failing to guess which of the characters is the interesting criminal . It is quite a recent discovery that the stage can thus supply precisely the same pleasure as the detective story . The aim of the ...
Page 356
... kind ; the continual pretence , when the most extraordinary and incongruous things happen , that nothing unusual or unbecoming has occurred . There is , however , another element which is always contributive , not so much to our relish ...
... kind ; the continual pretence , when the most extraordinary and incongruous things happen , that nothing unusual or unbecoming has occurred . There is , however , another element which is always contributive , not so much to our relish ...
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SHAKESPEARE | 5 |
SHYLOCKS PAST AND PRESENT January 24th | 15 |
Othello May 7th 1921 | 21 |
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