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Unfortunately for the modern dramatist, during the past century and a half the public realm has been less and less of a realm where human deeds are done, and more and more of a realm of mere human behavior. The contemporary dramatist has lost his natural subject.
Wystan Hugh Auden
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The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.


— The Aspern Papers; The Turn of the Screw; The Liar; The Two Faces

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3 Kalki 20:47, 15 April 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4. 3 InvisibleSun 22:33, 15 April 2007 (UTC) 1 Zarbon 23:52, 22 April 2008 (UTC) A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it. ~ Thornton Wilder


— SOURCE: BBC Archive - NewsBank - Oct 20, 1999

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The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.

Henry James

— The Aspern Papers; The Turn of the Screw; The Liar; The Two Faces

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