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I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!

Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.

Drama is about conflict, and it's about putting obstacles in the path of people you who care about.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.