# What do working playwrights say about how they individualise voices, and where does the author's own voice leak in?

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Corrected 2026-10-24 - see C3-B1077-01; the original statements below are kept for history and are superseded where the correction says so. Writer accounts reproduced in Baker (1919) describe individualisation as a revision pass (Ibsen: the draft comes first, then 'the more energetic individualization of the persons, and their modes of expression'), a leak-spotting practice (de Curel notices another character speaking 'as I should' and corrects later) and collecting real speech (Lady Gregory notes the 'racy, apt, and highly individualized phrases' of her community). Archer (1912) adds that stylish writers' mannerisms carry over to all characters. These are secondary quotations and a manual, not tests.

Writer accounts reproduced in Baker (1919) describe individualisation as a revision pass (Ibsen: the draft comes first, then 'the more energetic individualization of the persons, and their modes of expression'), a leak-spotting practice (de Curel notices another character speaking 'as I should' and corrects later) and collecting real speech (Lady Gregory notes the 'racy, apt, and highly individualized phrases' of her community). Archer (1912) adds that stylish writers' mannerisms carry over to all characters. These are secondary quotations and a manual, not tests.

Curator correction 2026-10-24 (discovery audit record C3-B1077-01, curator-reviewed C3R-0688; excerpts re-located by independent curator GET 2026-10-24): Supersedes C3-B1076-01, which carried this same correction but was published without uncertainty and rights fields. Correction. Record C3-B119-S26-07 says 'Archer (1912) adds that stylish writers' mannerisms carry over to all characters.' Archer's Play-Making (1912) does not say that, and the record does not label that clause as inference (only its separate leak-to-'all characters sound the same' mapping is labelled synthesis). What Archer says, in his dialogue chapter: (1) Oscar Wilde's dialogue is not free from mannerism; (2) Wilde's 'mot d'auteur' epigrams in one scene (the five men, Lady Windermere's Fan, Act 3) are very slightly related, if at all, to the speakers' characters and can be detached from context; (3) George Meredith's mannerisms, transferred by lesser men to the stage, tend to be disastrous. Archer does not claim a stylist's mannerisms pervade every character. Linking (2) to author-voice leakage across characters is the reader's inference, not Archer's statement. The clause was an overstatement when written; it is not a dated or superseded fact.

Curator qualifications: Verified the quotes. The leak-spotting mapping is labelled synthesis.

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Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Curator correction 2026-10-24 (discovery audit record C3-B1077-01, curator-reviewed C3R-0688; excerpts re-located by independent curator GET 2026-10-24): Supersedes C3-B1076-01, which carried this same correction but was published without uncertainty and rights fields. Correction. Record C3-B119-S26-07 says 'Archer (1912) adds that stylish writers' mannerisms carry over to all characters.' Archer's Play-Making (1912) does not say that, and the record does not label that clause as inference (only its separate leak-to-'all characters sound the same' mapping is labelled synthesis). What Archer says, in his dialogue chapter: (1) Oscar Wilde's dialogue is not free from mannerism; (2) Wilde's 'mot d'auteur' epigrams in one scene (the five men, Lady Windermere's Fan, Act 3) are very slightly related, if at all, to the speakers' characters and can be detached from context; (3) George Meredith's mannerisms, transferred by lesser men to the stage, tend to be disastrous. Archer does not claim a stylist's mannerisms pervade every character. Linking (2) to author-voice leakage across characters is the reader's inference, not Archer's statement. The clause was an overstatement when written; it is not a dated or superseded fact. · locator: curator correction paragraph in this record body (C3-B1077-01) · source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36580/pg36580.txt
- [sourced_fact] SUPERSEDED IN PART 2026-10-24 by curator correction C3-B1077-01 (see the correction claim above); original kept for history: Writer accounts reproduced in Baker (1919) describe individualisation as a revision pass (Ibsen: the draft comes first, then 'the more energetic individualization of the persons, and their modes of expression'), a leak-spotting practice (de Curel notices another character speaking 'as I should' and corrects later) and collecting real speech (Lady Gregory notes the 'racy, apt, and highly individualized phrases' of her community). Archer (1912) adds that stylish writers' mannerisms carry over to all characters. These are secondary quotations and a manual, not tests. · locator: Ibsen, de Curel, Lady Gregory passages; mannerism passages · source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36580/pg36580.txt

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