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All the greatest masterpieces of the dramatic art have been composed in direct violation of the unities and would never have been composed if the unities had not been violated.
J. B. Macaulay
It is an extremely difficult thing to put on the stage anything which runs contrary to the opinions of a large body of people.
George Bernard Shaw
What makes the difference between the drama and all other kinds of art is that you crowd a mass of people together, not as you would crowd them in a prison, in such a manner that it is humiliating for anybody present to made any protest.
G. K. Chesterton
The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.
J. N. Synge
Where is our usual manager of mirth? What revels are in hand? Is there no play, To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?
Shakespeare
A play ought to be just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours, and the changes of fortune to which it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind.
John Dryden
The business of plays is to recommend virtue, and discountenance vice; to show the uncertainty of human greatness, the sudden turns of fate, and the unhappy conclusions of violence and injustice, it is to expose the singularities of pride and fancy, to make folly and falsehood contemptible, and to bring everything that is ill under infamy and neglect.
Jeremy Collier
A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.
Abraham Lincoln
There is no play without a fool.
John Clarke
The business of the dramatist is to keep out of sight and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken. The effect is on an unpleasant as that which is produced on the stage by the voice of a prompter or the entrance of a scene shifter.
J. B. Macaulay
The dramatic author is enclosed in a rigid fame The solitary reader tolerates everything, goes where he is led, even when he is disgusted; but the spectators taken enmasse are seized with prudishness, with frights with sensibilities, of which the author must take notice under pain of a certain failure.
Emile Zola
