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Title: Successful Recitations

Author: Various
Editor: Alfred H. Miles
Release Date: December 22, 2005 [eBook #17378]
Language: English
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SUCCESSFUL RECITATIONS
Edited by
ALFRED H. MILES
1901



"Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly
on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had
as lief the town-crier spoke my lines."--_Hamlet_. SHAKESPEARE.


London:
S. H. Bousfield & Co., Ld.,
Norfolk House, Norfolk Street W.C.
London:
Printed by H. Virtue And Company, Limited.
City Road.


PREFACE.
Many things go to the making of a successful recitation.
A clear aim and a simple style are among the first of these: the
subtleties which make the charm of much of the best poetry are lost
in all but the best platform work.
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