Plays, Acting and Music: A Book Of Theory

by Arthur Symons

[]PLAYS

ACTING AND MUSIC

A BOOK OF THEORY

BY

ARTHUR SYMONS

LONDON
CONSTABLE & COMPANY LTD
1909

To Maurice Maeterlinck in friendship and admiration

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PREFACE

When this book was first published it contained a large amount of material which is now taken out of it; additions have been made, besides many corrections and changes; and the whole form of the book has been remodelled. It is now more what it ought to have been from the first; what I saw, from the moment of its publication, that it ought to have been: a book of theory. The rather formal announcement of my intentions which I made in my preface is reprinted here, because, at all events, the programme was carried out.