Dramatic Technique is a collection of essays by George Pierce Baker on the craft of writing for the stage. Drawing on his experience as a professor of drama, Baker examines how plays are built: plot, character, dialogue, and the demands of performance. It remains useful for anyone curious about how dramatic works are shaped.
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E-text prepared by Marius Masi, Jonathan Ingram, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) DRAMATIC TECHNIQUE BY GEORGE PIERCE BAKER PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND TECHNIQUE OF THE DRAMA IN YALE UNIVERSITY
“A good play is certainly the most rational and the highest Entertainment that Human Invention can produce.” COLLEY CIBBER HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON · NEW YORK · CHICAGO · DALLAS · SAN FRANCISCO The Riverside Press Cambridge COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY GEORGE PIERCE BAKER ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The author acknowledges courteous permission to quote passages from copyright plays as credited to various authors and publishers in the footnotes. The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
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