But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

  • -- George P. Baker 乔治·P·贝克

但是什么是戏剧呢?从广义上说,它是通过模仿行为引起兴趣或给予乐趣的任何东西。

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I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

我倾向于通过阴郁来营造戏剧性。如果我想让读者对某个角色产生同情,我会在他生日那天把他劈成两半。然后开始下雨。他是糖做的。

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

也就是说,史诗被独立地创造了很多次;但是,由于推动这项发明的需求大致相同,所以这项发明本身也是如此。

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

回溯到野蛮和文明时代,在所有语言中,我们都能从模仿行为中找到这种本能的快乐,而这正是所有戏剧的精髓所在

When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.

当人们谈论小说的死亡时,他们是在谈论一些不同的东西的诞生。

Speaking silence is better than senseless speech.

沉默胜于无谓的言语。

I played comedies and dramas.

我演喜剧和戏剧。