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“The problem play is a melodrama cleansed of invention.”
― Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
― Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
“either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it...”
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“it is the function of a poet to relate not things that have happened, but things that may happen,”
― Poetics: with the Tractatus Coislinianus, reconstruction of Poetics II, and the fragments of the On Poets
― Poetics: with the Tractatus Coislinianus, reconstruction of Poetics II, and the fragments of the On Poets
“Today, as in ancient Rome, when all avenues of success have been traveled and all prizes won, the final prize is the delusion of godhead.”
― Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
― Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
“The audience wants to be piqued, to be misled, to be disappointed at times, so that it can, finally, be fulfilled. The audience therefore needs the second act to end with a question.”
― Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
― Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
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