"There is no essential difference between the material……" — George Pierce Baker
"There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience."
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George Pierce Baker
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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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No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.
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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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