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.
Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else. - George P. Baker
Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.
- George P. 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 emph… - George P. 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 emph…
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 … - George P. Baker
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 …
In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action. - George P. Baker
In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.
But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure. - George P. Baker
But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essen… - George P. Baker
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essen…
The drama is a great revealer of life. - George P. Baker
The drama is a great revealer of life.
No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given. - George P. Baker
No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.
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 sta… - George P. Baker
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 sta…
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