George P. Baker

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature. ↗

— George P. Baker

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Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops. ↗

— George P. Baker

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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 P. Baker

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

— George P. 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 P. Baker

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Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible. ↗

— George P. Baker

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In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action. ↗

— George P. Baker

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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. ↗

— George P. Baker

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

— George P. Baker

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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 standards for the next generation. ↗

— George P. Baker

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