The Theatre and Dramatic Theory

action actors Æschylus Antigone appear approach Aristophanes Aristotle Aristotle's attitude audience auditors basic become century characters Christopher Fry comedy of manners Comic Spirit concept concerned course critical death dialogue distinct drama dramatic theory dramatist effect elements Elizabethan emotional endeavour Eric Bentley essay essential example expression fact force Francis Fergusson Greek Hamlet hero humour ideas imaginative impression intellectual interpreted J. B. Priestley kind laughter Lear lines literary literature Macbeth Maugham means melodrama mind modern Molière nature non-dramatic numerous observed offer ordinary Othello particular passions pattern performance perhaps persons play playhouse playwrights plot poetic poetry poets precisely present production prose qualities realistic realm scenes sense Shakespeare Shakespearian significance social Somerset Maugham Sophocles spectators speech stage stress style T. S. Eliot tends theatre theatre's theatrical theme things thought tion to-day tragic trend true verse W. B. Yeats whole words writing