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Although in some ways a dramatist’s task is complete when his play is finally written, we have seen the importance that should be attached to the next two steps in the production process: staging and publication. At each of these points the playwright can, if he so desires, make his influence felt, by instructing the actors on how their parts should be played and by revising his text for publication in the light of criticism or his own second thoughts.
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Gossip, C.J. (1981). Criticism. In: An Introduction to French Classical Tragedy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04518-1_14
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