New Drama
- John Durant Breval (as "Mr. Gay") - The Confederates (attack on John Gay, Alexander Pope, and the other members of the Scribblerus Club)
- Christopher Bullock - The Perjuror
- Susanna Centlivre - The Cruel Gift
- Benjamin Griffin - The Masquerade
- Charles Johnson - The Sultaness
- Delarivière Manley - Lucius, the First Christian King of Britain
- William Taverner - The Artful Husband
- - The Artful Wife
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Famous quotes containing the word drama:
“To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.”
—Eleonora Duse (1859–1924)
“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.”
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