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the play

«The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.»
«The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Humanity, Life | Keywords: badly, cast, stage, the play
«The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play»
«The play is done; the curtain drops,Slow falling to the prompter's bellA moment yet the actor stopsAnd looks around to say farewell.It is an irksome word and task:And when he's laughed and said his say,He shows, as he removes the mask,A face that's anything but gay.»
«The thing which sets off the American from all other men, and gives peculiar color not only to the pattern of his daily life but also adds to the play of his inner ideas, is what, for want of a more exact term, may be called social aspiration»
«The last act crowns the play.»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | Keywords: the play
«The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.»
«The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster»
«The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king»
«The play, I remember, pleased not the million; 'twas caviar to the general»

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