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" In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple, and such speeches cannot be written by anyone who works among people who have shut their lips on poetry. "
Anglia: Zeitschrift für englische Philologie - Page 144
1913
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The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts

John Millington Synge - 1907 - 130 pages
...that has been given them in place of the rich joy found only in what is superb and wild in reality. In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured...works among people who have shut their lips on poetry. In Ireland, for a few years more, we have a popular imagination that is fiery and magnificent, and...
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The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts

John Millington Synge - 1907 - 110 pages
...that has been given them in place of the rich joy found only in what is superb and wild in reality. In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured...works among people who have shut their lips on poetry. In Ireland, for a few years more, we have a popular imagination that is fiery and magnificent, and...
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Phantasms: (a Drama in Four Acts)

Roberto Bracco - 1908 - 150 pages
...next to last sentence where he maintains — ' In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple, and such speeches cannot be written by any one who works among people who have shut their lips on poetry.' ' Give up Paris; you will never...
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The Works of John M. Synge: The playboy of the western world. Deirdre of the ...

John Millington Synge - 1910 - 294 pages
...that has been given them in place of the rich joy found only in what is superb and wild in reality. In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured...works among people who have shut their lips on poetry. In Ireland, for a few years more, we have a popular imagination that is fiery, and magnificent, and...
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The Dial, Volume 50

Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - 1911 - 396 pages
...already been spoken. " In a good play," Synge writes there, " every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple, and such speeches cannot be written...anyone who works among people who have shut their eyes on poetry." And yet, if Ireland alone, of English-speaking lands, still uses " for a few years...
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J. M. Synge and the Irish Dramatic Movement

Francis Bickley - 1912 - 110 pages
...that has been given them in place of the rich joy found only in what is superb and wild in reality. In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as nut or apple, and such speeches cannot be written by anyone who works among people who have shut their...
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The Influence of the Drama

Granville Forbes Sturgis - 1913 - 216 pages
...only in what is superb and wild in reality. In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple, and Such speeches cannot be written...among people who have shut their lips on poetry." That is an excellent commentary on the Drama, but in many ways his own plays do not live up to all...
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The Genius of the Gael: A Study in Celtic Psychology and Its Manifestations

Sophie Willock Bryant - 1913 - 310 pages
...this great " find " of his he says : " On the stage one must have reality and one must have joy. ... In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple, and such speeches cannot be 1 88 written by any one who works among people who have shut their lips on poetry. In Ireland for a...
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Aspects of Modern Drama

Frank Wadleigh Chandler - 1914 - 524 pages
...Playboy," Synge states his theory of style. "In a good play, every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple, and such speeches cannot be written by any one who works among people who have shut their lips on poetry. In Ireland for a few years more,...
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Dramatic Technique

George Pierce Baker - 1919 - 554 pages
...that has been given them in place of the rich joy found only in what is superb and wild in reality. In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured...nut or apple, and such speeches cannot be written by any one who works among people who have shut their lips on poetry. In Ireland, for a few years more,...
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