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The Basis Of Drama Is... The Struggle Of The Hero Towards A Specific Goal At The End Of Which He Realises That What Kept Him From It Was, In The Lesser Drama, Civilisation And, In The Great Drama, The Discovery Of Something That He Did Not Set Out To Discover But Which Can Be Seen Retrospectively As Inevitable.

In A Restaurant One Is Both Observed And Unobserved. Joy And Sorrow Can Be Displayed And Observed "unwittingly," The Writer Scowling Naively And The Diners Wondering, What The Hell Is He Doing?

The Most Charming Of Theories Holds That Someone Other Than Shakespeare Wrote Shakespeare's Plays -- That He Was Of Too Low A State, And Of Insufficient Education. But Where In The Wide History Of The World Do We Find Art Created By The Excessively Wealthy, Powerful, Or Educated?

The Main Question In Drama, The Way I Was Taught, Is Always, 'what Does The Protagonist Want?' That's What Drama Is. It Comes Down To That. It's Not About Theme, It's Not About Ideas, It's Not About Setting, But What The Protagonist Wants.

Art Is An Expression Of Joy And Awe. It Is Not An Attempt To Share One's Virtues And Accomplishments With The Audience, But An Act Of Selfless Spirit.