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In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.
No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.
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.
But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.
Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.
Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.
Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.
