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What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to... →
Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.
When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for... →
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... →
Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader... →
Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world... →
Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this... →
The drama is a great revealer of life.
Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.
But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.
Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.
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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