Word: duran
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duran in his "Plays of Old Japan" has set out to do a very different and less satisfactory work. He has deliberately combined many plays, and "out of a mass of documents" he has extracted "a limited number of situations" which he has put together "to make five subjects, each complete in itself and offering possibilities for production on the English and American stage." He has cut the "long, rather tedious dialogues" of the original and has "written rapid dramatic scenes giving an actor full opportunity to work himself into the spirit of the part". Working on that basis there...