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Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.
- George Pierce Baker
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The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
- George Pierce Baker
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Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.
- George Pierce Baker
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Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.
- George Pierce Baker
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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 Pierce Baker
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