Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.
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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 itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.
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The drama is a great revealer of life.
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In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.
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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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But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.
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