The true artist will let his wife starve...
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Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Young Adult, Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 1
Time & Place
England, 1900s
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
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The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. To women he is half vivisector, half vampire. He gets into intimate relations with them to
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