An Exercise in Sardoodledom
"Sardoodledom" is that coinage of George Bernard Shaw's to describe what he took to be one of the diseases of his age, an undue reverence on the part of the public and theatre professionals for the plays of French playwright Victorien Sardou (1831-1908). Sardou (and his own model Eugene Scribe) were formulaic in the construction […]
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