Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
There are no rules for writing a play. It is easy, indeed, to lay down negative recommendations--to instruct the beginner how _not_ to do it. But most of these "don'ts" are rather obvious; and those which are not obvious are apt to be questionable. It is certain, for instance,...
There are no rules for writing a play. It is easy, indeed, to lay down negative recommendations--to instruct the beginner how _not_ to do it. But most of these "don'ts" are rath...
13. Chapter 13studio happy and serene, she leaves it broken-hearted; but the effect of the scene is not a whit greater because, in the two previous acts, we have been studiously deprived of t...
11. Chapter 11[Footnote 3: A malicious anecdote to a similar effect was current in the early days of Sir Henry Irving's career. It was said that at Bristol one night, when Mr. Irving, as Haml...
12. Chapter 12business to recite on the stage articles from the _Vie Parisienne_, it makes no difference whether you stop at the end of the second article or at the end of the third." This cl...
10. Chapter 10gagged and thrown back into poverty, is tempted to take flight, but determines to remain in his native place and fight for its moral, if not for its physical, sanitation.
6. Chapter 6Can it be doubted that Shakespeare had in his mind the rhythm marked by this act-division? I do not mean, of course, that these phrases, or anything like them, were present to h...
14. Chapter 14or both of which could be omitted without leaving any sensible gap. The latter is wholly superfluous, the former conveys some information which might have been taken for granted...
9. Chapter 97. Chapter 72. Chapter 23. Chapter 38. Chapter 81. Chapter 14. Chapter 4