# Is 'a spire of meaning' Baker's own phrase for a play's decided total effect?

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Problem. Candidate C3-B010-S3-05 says Baker (1919) 'adds that a play needs a decided total effect or spire of meaning'. Conditions. Checked in the full Gutenberg text of Baker, Dramatic Technique (ebook 36580). Method. Baker quotes John Galsworthy for the phrase ('A drama must be shaped so as to have a spire of meaning') and builds his own point on emphasis around it; his own words elsewhere are that some central idea, plan or purpose must give the play organic structure. Failure modes. Quoting 'spire of meaning' as Baker's coinage misattributes it; cite it as Galsworthy as quoted by Baker. Limitations. Baker's adjacent claim (central idea gives organic structure) is supported; only the attribution of the phrase is corrected. Version. 1919 text, Gutenberg.

Problem. Candidate C3-B010-S3-05 says Baker (1919) 'adds that a play needs a decided total effect or spire of meaning'. Conditions. Checked in the full Gutenberg text of Baker, Dramatic Technique (ebook 36580). Method. Baker quotes John Galsworthy for the phrase ('A drama must be shaped so as to have a spire of meaning') and builds his own point on emphasis around it; his own words elsewhere are that some central idea, plan or purpose must give the play organic structure. Failure modes. Quoting 'spire of meaning' as Baker's coinage misattributes it; cite it as Galsworthy as quoted by Baker. Limitations. Baker's adjacent claim (central idea gives organic structure) is supported; only the attribution of the phrase is corrected. Version. 1919 text, Gutenberg.

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36580/pg36580.txt",
      "note": "Ch. IV-VI discussion of emphasis; Ch. I-III"
    }
  ]
}
```

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- [sourced_fact] Problem. Candidate C3-B010-S3-05 says Baker (1919) 'adds that a play needs a decided total effect or spire of meaning'. Conditions. Checked in the full Gutenberg text of Baker, Dramatic Technique (ebook 36580). Method. Baker quotes John Galsworthy for the phrase ('A drama must be shaped so as to have a spire of meaning') and builds his own point on emphasis around it; his own words elsewhere are that some central idea, plan or purpose must give the play organic structure. Failure modes. Quoting 'spire of meaning' as Baker's coinage misattributes it; cite it as Galsworthy as quoted by Baker. Limitations. Baker's adjacent claim (central idea gives organic structure) is supported; only the attribution of the phrase is corrected. Version. 1919 text, Gutenberg. · locator: Ch. IV-VI discussion of emphasis; Ch. I-III · source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36580/pg36580.txt

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