George Pierce
George Pierce
amtrak leave problem supposed
We were supposed to leave on the Amtrak Crescent to New Orleans, but we have a little problem down there.
cleaned maria needs santa trash
It needs to be cleaned up. We want it to look like the Santa Maria Cemetery. The trash needs to be cleaned up.
hide kids
It is not the end of the world. Don't try to hide it from the kids or the spouse.
accidents few quite slow
There are quite a few accidents at this intersection. We think it will slow down some of the kids.
felt human immature impulse pretend rare
Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.
assumed death far period recent tragic understand
What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.
audience brought choice drama eager freedom great individual itself perfect periods
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.
attains conduct dramatic human pleases reach revelation
When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.
broader next shaped standards turn
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.
depends difference essential material point tries view
There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.
eagerly holding laughter mankind men mirror nature reveals tears welcomed
Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.
gives interest whatever
But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.
acted requires
Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.
ages barbarism essence
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.