“Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.” Quote by George P. Baker
“Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.” ImpossibleTreatsImprobableFarce Author:George P. Baker
“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.” IfsGivingChoicesIndividualPerfectResultsAudienceSubjectsListeningInvolvedPeriodsDramaTreatmentInstructionSympatheticFreedom Of ChoiceGreat Results Author:George P. Baker
“In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.” ShouldPlayActionReadingLosesRemembered Author:George P. Baker
“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.” IfsEnoughCharacterTodayMovingSituationAbsurdGrantedPremisesFarce Author:George P. Baker
“There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.” TryingDifferencesViewsAudienceComedyMaterialsDependsEssentialsTragedyPoint Of ViewCleverEmphasis Author: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.” FailingDramaLimitsElementsAppealsPoorest Author:George P. Baker
“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.” YearsSometimesPlayPeriodsTragedyTragicElizabethan Author: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.” HumansPlayLiteraturePleaseDramaDialogueDramaticRevelationsCharacterization Author:George P. Baker