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

- 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 …

- George P. Baker

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 all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give i…

- 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

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

But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

- 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

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