id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 10865 Archer, William Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship .txt text/plain 101879 4708 68 even for the writer of a one-act play, a mere piece of dialogue; but in scene that he has placed in the first act ought to be in the second, or got your play till you have theme, characters, and action all fused. the moral scheme of the play; but from the point of view of pure drama, The moment the idea of the play-scene presented itself to character, and made his play a soul-tragedy; but in that case it would Acts, then, mark the time-stages in the development of a given crisis; main crisis of the play: and the art of act-construction lies in giving But the second act, in modern plays, has often to love-scene of the second act dramatic. [Footnote 3: Such a scene occurs in that very able play, _The Way the In other words, the culminating point of a four-or five-act play may be ./cache/10865.txt ./txt/10865.txt