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To treat a "big" subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.

Henry James

Henry James (1843–1916), U.S. author. Theatricals: Second Series, prefatory note (1894).

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