Quotes About Drama

We are the stage and all the players.

The key elements of storytelling are love, mystery & conflict.

MICHAEL E MANN is the bristlecone pine of scientists. Just as removing the bristlecones makes his hockey stick collapse, so removing Mann from the climate conversation would make a lot of the drama and hysteria and sheer unpleasantness disappear.

I want to take my readers on a ride, but, in the end, I want to throw them from the carriage.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

Life is full of internal dramas, instantaneous and sensational, played to an audience of one.

Mrs. Carbuncle had talked a great deal about "The Noble Jilt," and could boast that she had discussed the merits of the two chief characters with the actor and actress who were to undertake them.

CHAPTER XXXI THE RUFFORD CORRESPONDENCE

CHAPTER LXIX SCROBBY'S TRIAL

DRAMATIS PERSONAE Margaret De Wynter De Wynter - - Her father. Madame Brudo - Her aunt — a widow. Count Upsel - Her betrothed. Steinmark - - Leader of the republicans in Bruges. Helen - - - His sister — friend of Margaret. Belleroach - - His friend. Van Hoppen - - Burgomaster of Bruges. Jeannette - - Servant to Madame Brudo. Stoffle Souch r - - Three republican soldiers. Weazle J Two Burgomasters of Bruges Scene: Bruges in 1792

CHAPTER XVIII THE ATTORNEY'S FAMILY IS DISTURBED

CHAPTER IV THE DILLSBOROUGH CLUB

Sans un élément de cruauté à la base de tout spectacle, le théâtre n'est pas possible.

I would have drawn and quartered him, and I hope you do, said Richard, his eyes sparkling.

shit yourself

In the first half of the play he is the anti-heroic and burlesque figure long familiar in comedy and satyr drama.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

The plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy; Character holds the second place.

Tragedy, however, is an imitation not only of a complete action, but also of incidents arousing pity and fear.

Every tragedy consists in tying and untying of a knot.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

The same distinction marks off Tragedy from Comedy; for Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. III

All the elements of an Epic poem are found in Tragedy, but the elements of a Tragedy are not all found in the Epic poem.