Audience Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The beauty of theater is that you get to live the character from beginning to end without stopping. The natural momentum of the story…

— Sterling K. Brown

“That this is a practice contrary to the rules of criticism will be readily allowed; but there is always an appeal open from criticism…

— Samuel Johnson

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of…

— Horace Walpole

Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.

— George Saintsbury

There is a difference between dramatizing your sensibility and your personality. The literary works which we think of as classicsdid the former. Much modern…

— Paul Horgan

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself,…

— Anonymous

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

— Allen Tate

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of…

— Tom Stoppard

“The dramatic arises out of the margin of opaqueness between a writer and his personages, out of the potential for the unexpected. In the…

— George Steiner

One can do such lovely things with so little. Subjects that are too beautiful end by appearing theatrical.

— Camille Pissarro

Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.

— Kenneth Tynan

A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators…

— David Mamet