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Excerpt from The Theatre and Its People
One of the exercises in a dramatic school is to speak pieces as all of us did in our school-days. But the'selections are not the well-remembered ones of our juvenile declamation. They are likelier to be passages from plays so unfamiliar that the pupil cannot be guided by precedent, but must form his own conception of the ideas and how to convey them in Speech and action. The tendency is toward naturalism, and away from formal declamation. Ora tory, in the ordinary meaning of the word, is depreciated. Fluency and variety of utterance are aimed at.
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