Drama
- Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings - What Price Glory?
- Louis Aragon - Backs to the Wall
- Bertolt Brecht - The Life of Edward II of England
- Mikhail Bulgakov - The Fatal Eggs (Роковые яйца)
- Noël Coward - The Vortex (first performed), Hay Fever (written)
- Sean O'Casey - Juno and the Paycock
- Nikolai Erdman - The Warrant
- George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly - Beggar on Horseback
- Eugene O'Neill - Desire Under the Elms
- Sergei Tretyakov - The Gas Masks
- Tristan Tzara - Handkerchief of Clouds
- Roger Vitrac - The Mysteries of Love
- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz - The Mother
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Famous quotes containing the word drama:
“Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, griefs, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations—all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)
“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 (1858–1924)
“If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the world is provided by a writer. Farce is acted. The writer’s contribution seems not only absorbed but translated.... One cannot imagine melodrama being improvised. The improvised drama was pre-eminently farce.”
—Eric Bentley (b. 1916)