Author: George Pierce Baker

Quotes

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.

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 Pierce Baker

The drama is a great revealer of life.

The drama is a great revealer of life.

- George Pierce Baker

Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

- George Pierce Baker

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

- George Pierce Baker

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

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

- George Pierce 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.

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.

- George Pierce Baker

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