The Playgoer And Society Illustrated Vol 8 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Playgoer and Society Illustrated, Vol. 8: A Monthly Magazine of the Drama, Fashion, and Society; Containing Nos. 43 to 48 The public of that day was much less critical than the most prominent portion of the present day public. To the playgoers of 1877 Sardou appealed without reserve. The whole art of the dramatist is based on allowances. Let it be granted is the prayer of the playwright which he asks shall be agreed to before he starts to amuse us. Realism, after all, is only a question of degree. We plume ourselves on having done away with the convention of the soliloquy; but the division of the play into acts, the condensed dialogue, the arranged exits and entrances, the pictorial plotting out of the stage - all are conventions. That is why, though every tyro nowadays can point out the defects in a piece like Diplomacy Dora it bears revival not so badly. Sardou's answer to his hostile critics would have been The whole business is artificial, and the amount of artifice is settled by what the public will stand without being dis illusioned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.