George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Drama
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The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.
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A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.
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An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.
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The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.
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A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
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As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.
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Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.
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