Excerpt from Trials of a Dramatist by Jerome K. Jerome

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This autobiographical excerpt highlights a narrative voice in which dialogue is recounted by the speaker. The voices in the dialogue exist within the narrator's mind, and yet are audibly distinct from one another.

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

North American (General)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
a lady on one occasion asked me why I did not right to play. I am sure. Mr Jerome, she continued, with the bright, encouraging smile that you could write a play. I told her I had written nine, that six of them had been produced, that three of them have been successful both in England and America, and that one of them was still running at the Comedy Theatre and approaching its 2/100 night. Well, her eyebrows went up in amazement. Tear me, she said. To surprise me. George R. Sims told me that once he dined some friends at the civil over the coffee, he asked them if they would like to go to a theater, and they said that they would. He took them to a play of his own. For some reason that Simms could not explain, they did not like it at the end of the first act, One of them turning to him said, Rather dual stuff this. Do you find it so well? Now you come to mention it. Perhaps it is a trifle agreed. Sims. Let's go on to the empire, suggested another. Well, the proposal was carried out and leaving their programs behind them. The true Paros and made their way out of the theater noisily and cheerfully followed by Simms walking sober. It used to know a me added, since that not one theatergoer in 100 ever takes the trouble to read the author's name that evening, I was glad of it.