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Almanac: Terence Rattigan on the difference between plays and novels

by Terry Teachout

"Never forget that the spoken word is not twice nor three times, but five times as potent as the written word, so that what would occupy a page in a novel should take up only five lines in a play." Terence Rattigan (quoted in Michael Darlow, Terence Rattigan: The Man and His Work) Continue reading Almanac: Terence Rattigan on the difference between plays and novels at About Last Night.

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 7:00am on February 11, 2021