Sleep Story 201 - George Bernard Shaw: His Plays
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The Characters of the Shawl Plays
No two men see the same thing in exactly the same way, and there are no fixed standards whereby we may decide whether one the other or neither is right. All that we can demand of a dramatist is that he make his creation consistent and logical, and as far as he can see it true. There may be a good deal of shaw in him, but there is also some of kitchner and more of tommy atkins. This personal angle is the possession that makes one dramatist differ from all others. Sarcy has shown us that the essence of dramatic action is conflict. Every principal character in a play must have a compliment, or, as it is commonly
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