"No drama, however great, is entirely independent of……" — George Pierce Baker
"No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given."
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17 Quotes by George Pierce Baker
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Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action…
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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…
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In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in…
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In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises…
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Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice…
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Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one…
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Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to…
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The drama is a great revealer of life.
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The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to…
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