The drama is a great revealer of life.

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Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.

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No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

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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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Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

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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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Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

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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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Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

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We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.

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