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Excerpt from The Province of Expression: A Search for Principles; Underlying Adequate Methods of Developing Dramatic and Oratoric Delivery During the last twelve or fifteen years, as I have met different classes in various institutions, I have endeavored at the very beginning of each course to give a general conception of the purpose and nature of the work to be undertaken. As the students have come together, strange to each other, strange to their teacher, and unacquainted with the subject, it seemed best thus to introduce them to the work. It was found necessary to do this also because many had absolutely false ideas of the department, and others such vague notions as to furnish no foundation for a beginning. Before this method was adopted, the simplest exercises would fail to accomplish any satisfactory results through mere misconception, not so much of the specific exercises, as of the general nature and aim of all work for the development of expression. Out of such efforts this book has grown. Of course it is not meant that all the principles here discussed were considered before students began to work. Only about one half the first hour could be devoted to such a definition, but, though only a few ideas could be awakened, it was the endeavor to state the fundamental elements, and to suggest lines of thinking, so that in the future practice and study the students would be led naturally into a comprehensive grasp of the nature and aim of such work and its relations to other departments of education. 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.