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Introduction
THIS instructive little book is designed to explain to dramatists, to the public, and to dramatic critics, how a play is produced, and through what transformations it has to pass before it bursts from its chrysalis in all the beauty and splendour of its first night.
We do not wish to pretend that we understand the theatre; as a matter of fact, no
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