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Dramatical or representative poesy is, as it were, a visible history; for it sets out the image of things as if they were present. - Francis Bacon On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts. - John Dryden The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of action. - John Dryden A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man. - Edwin Forrest There is so much of the glare and grief of life connected with the stage that it fills me with most solemn thoughts. - Henry Giles It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play. - William Hazlitt (1) What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out. - Alfred Hitchcock Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice, and are inflamed with all the variety of passions which actuate the several personages of the drama. - David Hume The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of its liveliest wit or most passionate impulses, a thousand times adorning or feeling all as it goes; and you must read it, as the healthy instinct of audiences almost always does, if the critics will let them alone, with a grain of allowance, and a tendency to go away with as much of it for use as is necessary, and the rest for the luxury of laughter, pity, or poetical admiration. - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt) The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue. - Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble (Mrs. Butler) The business of the dramatist is to keep himself 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. - Thomas Babington Macaulay The real object of the drama is the exhibition of the human character. - Thomas Babington Macaulay By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more and not merely to spend our feelings. - Arthur Miller The tragedy of "Hamlet" is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is also, according to the testimony of every sort of manager, the play of all others which can invariably be depended on to fill a theater. - George Augustus Henry Sala The seat of wit, when one speaks as a man of the town and the world, is the playhouse. - Sir Richard Steele Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays. - Jonathan Swift The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her. - Robert Aris Willmott The drama is the book of the people. - Robert Aris Willmott The dramatist, like the poet, is born, not made. * * * There must be inspiration back of all true and permanent art, dramatic or otherwise, and art is universal; there is nothing national about it. Its field is humanity, and it takes in all the world; nor does anything else afford the refuge that is provided by it from all troubles and all the vicissitudes of life. - William Winter
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