New Drama
- Colley Cibber - Caesar in Aegypt
- John Gay - The Captives
- Eliza Haywood - A Wife to be Lett
- Ludvig Holberg - Henrik and Pernille
- William Philips - Belisarius
- Richard Savage - The Tragedy of Sir Thomas Overbury
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Famous quotes containing the word drama:
“To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.”
—Eleonora Duse (1859–1924)
“By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.”
—Arthur Miller (b. 1915)