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Life of the Drama (1964)
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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.
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Eric Bentley
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September 14, 1916
Died:
August 5, 2020
(aged 103)
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