The Witness for the Defence started life as a stage play which Mason had privately published in 1911. During the play's run, Mason made amendments and improvements which were incorporated into the acting edition published by Samuel French in 1913,[4] and which also found their way into the novel published in the same year. The novel uses nearly all the speeches from the play, in some cases with yet further improvements. Mason's biographer, Roger Lancellyn Green, commented that Mason was able to reproduce his characters with more precision and greater focus, having seen them upon the stage.[5]
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