The Comedies of Harold Chapin (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Comedies of Harold Chapin When I agreed, very gladly, to write a few words of introduction to this volume, I cautiously bought a book about how to write plays (there are many of them), in order to see whether Mr. Chapin wrote his properly. But the book was so learned, and the author knew so much, and the subject when studied grew so difficult, that I hurriedly abandoned my inquiry. Thus one of us at least missed his last chance of discovering what that mysterious thing, "stage technique," really is, which after all does not greatly matter as nearly everyone else seems to know. I say nearly everyone else because I am not at all certain that Mr. Chapin knew. He certainly breaks most of the rules laid down in the early chapters of the guide book, but breaks them so agreeably that one feels he had unconsciously found a better way for himself. Plays ought undoubtedly to be 42 by 36, which is the real reason why writing them should be so difficult, but he does not even seem to have known the correct figures, nor indeed that play-writing was difficult; there is no sign of "building" in his comedy; he starts off at once, gaily, as if instinct told him where to begin and how to go on, and he goes on so blithely that never was a recent writer who made play-writing seem more easy. It makes him a peculiarly delightful companion to the reader, of whom it will doubtless often make a playwright who might not otherwise have been one (if there is any such person), for apparently to Mr. Chapin the difficulties are so readily surmounted that he is over them without being aware that they were there. Perhaps this is merely his masterly cunning, and he has skilfully removed the ladders by which he climbed, but I scarcely think so. I think he was the "born dramatist" who did not know how it was done but could do it. I remember many years ago being in a club - probably the last time I was in one - where everyone was discussing "style," for it was very much a literary club. 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.
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