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Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is…
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But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.
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Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.
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Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.
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In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience…
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In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.
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In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once…
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No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
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