act-ending

Updated: May 20, 2025

Here, however, the fault did not lie in awakening a premature expectation of the close, but in the fact that we somehow were more interested in the other characters of the play than in the pair who held the stage throughout the long concluding scene. Once more I turn to La Douloureuse for an instance of an admirable act-ending of the quiet modern type.

William Archer - Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship