sausage-string

Updated: May 5, 2025

Plays, as well as novels, have been constructed in this inorganic way, for example, Molière's "L'Etourdi" and "Les Facheux." If the actors, in performing either of these plays, should omit one or two units of the sausage-string of incidents, the audience would not become aware of any gap in structure.

Clayton Meeker Hamilton - A Manual of the Art of Fiction

Plays, as well as novels, have been constructed in this inorganic way, for example, Molière's "L'Etourdi" and "Les Facheux." If the actors, in performing either of these plays, should omit one or two units of the sausage-string of incidents, the audience would not become aware of any gap in structure.

Clayton Meeker Hamilton - Materials and Methods of Fiction: With an Introduction by Brander Matthews