How to Write a Play [[electronic resource] ] : Letters from Augier, Banville, Dennery, Dumas, Gondinet, Labiche, Legouve, Pailleron, Sardou, Zola
Pubbl/distr/stampa
Auckland, : The Floating Press, 1916
ISBN
1-77556-792-3
Descrizione fisica
1 online resource (48 p.)
Disciplina
808.2
Soggetti
Drama -- Technique
Drama
Playwriting
Electronic books.
Lingua di pubblicazione
Inglese
Formato
Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico
Monografia
Note generali
Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto
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
Sommario/riassunto
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...