box-receipts

Updated: May 2, 2025

For after all it seems to have been left for modern artists to grow wealthy and live comfortably upon the proceeds of their own relation of the world's despair; if they are playwrights, to live most snugly upon the box-receipts of an entrapped audience unnerved for the struggle of life by their ghastly picture of life's gloom.

T. Martin Wood - George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians