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The openings of plays, as of other works of creative art that can be apprehended only sequentially--novels, epic poems, for instance--pose to writers a particular set of problems which result from the two primary functions of those openings: that of introducing the story economically with a deceptive and convincing air of relevance, and secondly that of engaging at the outset the full attention of the cold reader or spectator. Let me quote one modem if relatively unsuccessful dramatist. ‘He (sc. the member of the audience) is to be caught at the first in the act of attention, of the very greatest attention, and that is all, as a precious preliminary at least, that the playwright asks of him’: so Henry James, in his preface to The Awkward Age1.
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Arnott, W.G. (1993). Comic Openings. In: Slater, N.W., Zimmermann, B. (eds) Intertextualität in der griechisch-römischen Komödie. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04190-6_2
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