Quotes with dramatists

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• In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked behind most of the early plays. But not now. There is no conviction now that the problem will be solved.

  ― Brooks Atkinson
  American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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• The theatre is supremely fitted to say: ''Behold! These things are.'' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: ''This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.''

  ― Thornton Wilder
  American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• traditional
• inequities
• conviction
• supremely
• beholding
• america

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