Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.
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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 understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.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 elements.
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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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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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