Bernard Shaw's life was closely related to the socialist movement. He carefully studied "Das Kapital" and publicly declared that he was an ordinary proletarian and a socialist. Below is a collection of dramatic quotes by Bernard Shaw that I have compiled. Welcome to read.

Bernard Shaw's famous quotes on drama

Drama should be a factory of ideas, a reminder of conscience, an explainer of social morality, a weapon to expel despair and boredom, A temple that celebrates human progress.

Source: "Bernard Shaw's Theory of Drama"

In the new script, drama is produced through the conflict between some unstable ideals and other unstable ideals, and Not through vulgar love, greed, generosity, resentment, ambition, misunderstandings, eccentricities, things like that that don't raise any moral questions.

Source: "Bernard Shaw's Drama Theory"

If it was just for art, then I would not even spend the effort to write a sentence.

Source: "Bernard Shaw's Theory of Drama"

If the question fails to arouse interest, is trite, is poorly handled, or is obviously fake, then the script is bad ;A script is good if the issues are important, fresh, persuasive, or at least disturbing.

Source: "Bernard Shaw's Drama Theory"

Drama is not for entertainment but for education and publicity.

Source: "Bernard Shaw's Drama Theory"

"Art for art's sake", when this slogan is implemented, it becomes: "Success for money".

Source: "Bernard Shaw's Theory of Drama"

New ideas create new techniques, just as flowing water creates rivers.

Source: "Bernard Shaw's Drama Theory"

Great art is never produced for the sake of art itself.

Source: "Bernard Shaw's Theory of Drama"

Any drama that discusses human problems in a sincere manner will hurt a ridiculous pride and complacency; and this ridiculous pride Should complacency be flattered by legendary novels?

Source: "The Biography of Bernard Shaw"

There is always something behind; I don't feel the existence of these things, but it In the end it became the real theme of the entire creation.

Source: "The Biography of Bernard Shaw"

The purpose of a dramatist writing a play is not to let the flattered audience watch a clever and interesting entertainment performance to kill time. Instead, it makes the audience feel guilty and guilty.

Source: "Bernard Shaw's Drama Theory and Practice"

Art cannot be produced without the need to preach.

Source: "Bernard Shaw's Drama Theory and Practice"

A script with ideas and vitality is composed of itself. The "strictly structured drama" written by unthinking theater technicians is a conspicuous, babyless cradle that, because it is empty and lifeless, has finally become as outdated as last year's hat.

Source: "Bernard Shaw's Drama Theory and Practice"

The art of realistic drama must discover inner things through the surface.

Source: "Bernard Shaw's Drama Theory and Practice"

I publicly declare: I am interested in fantasy life, fantasy law, fantasy ethics, science, peace, and war on and off the stage. , love, virtue, vice and all other fanciful things, I feel tired and disgusted. I ask people to show respect, care and love for true humanity and real life.

Source: "Bernard Shaw's Drama Theory and Practice"

If comedy writers have nothing fundamentally positive to say, then comedy is basically destructive, childish and ridiculous , demanding, negative art.

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Source: "On Tragic Comedy and Bernard Shaw's Tragic Comedy"

It (modern tragic comedy) is not just a work for human entertainment, but It is a critique of contemporary morality.

Source: "On Tragicomedy and the Tragicomedy of George Bernard Shaw"

If you have nothing more to say, or nothing more to show, then writing a play or painting a mural is a good idea What's the use?

Source: "Bernard Shaw on Shakespeare"

Dramatic techniques for entertainment are no more useful to theater audiences than to the audience in a courtroom where a murderer is being tried. More applicable.

Source: "Bernard Shaw on Ibsen"

Discussion? is the real core of the audience's interest in his plays.

Source: "Bernard Shaw on Ibsen"

Not only do they (the audience) get something by spending money to watch the play, but what they get is something of permanent value to them.

Source: "Bernard Shaw on Ibsen"

In the play, the playwright raises some behavioral and character issues that the audience thinks are important, and discusses these issues. Inspiring discussion, this kind of drama is an interesting drama.

Source: "Bernard Shaw on Ibsen"

I have found that the use of drama to fight is so effective that I am convinced that I will eventually convince even London audiences that when they enter the theater Go with their consciences and heads, instead of leaving them at home with their prayer books, as at present.

Source: "The Prose Works of Bernard Shaw"

The fashionable theater prescribed only one serious subject: private, secret adultery; this was all that the serious playwright had The most boring topic among topics. China Inspirational Network www.zhlzw.com

Source: "The Prose Works of Bernard Shaw"

Screenwriters should learn from life. I heard that you studied screenwriting in a certain university. It's very strange. Have you learned anything in the classroom or from books? Screenwriters have to learn from life;

Source: "Bernard Shaw in Shanghai"

Those who want to learn to make plays What people should avoid most is to decide on a pattern and a program first, and then fill in the materials one after another. Later, you will focus on the pattern and method, and forget the reason why you want to write the play.

Source: "Bernard Shaw in Shanghai"

When I write my own script, I first identify a few characters, record their actions and language, and they will develop naturally. , like the opening of a flower, the screenwriter who can truly learn how to do it.

Source: "Bernard Shaw in Shanghai"

Does inspiration come twice a day? Of course not.

Source: "100 Love Letters from Bernard Shaw") I have to say something; I cannot use pen and ink to rest my scarred brain on your lap, nor can I use inarticulate syllables to appeal. To lighten the burden on my heart. When I think and write, my thoughts fly out like stones.

Source: "100 Love Letters of Bernard Shaw"

The dramatist's duty is to make the readers forget the dance announcement and the actors to forget the audience, but not to make the readers often think of the stage, nor to make the actors think of the stage. Always think of the audience.

Source: "The Biography of George Bernard Shaw"

The birth of drama in ancient times is based on the combination of two desires: one is the desire to dance, the other is the desire to listen to stories. Then the dancing turned into talking nonsense, and the story turned into a scene in a play.

Source: "Bernard Shaw's Drama Theory"

In his view, a script is just some long material that allows him to express his opinions on the stage, but these materials are completely subsidiary For his highest purpose, it can be cut to fit his body like a roll of cloth.

Source: "100 Love Letters from Bernard Shaw"

A stage direction does not need to tell the actor how to perform, but should tell him what role to perform. There is only one effect produced, but there may be fifty different ways of performing it.

Source: "The Biography of Bernard Shaw"

Without conflict, there is no drama. Without conflict, there is no drama.

Source: "Bernard Shaw's Drama Theory and Practice"

Drama should not rely on bizarre plots but on ideal conflicts and debates of opinions. China Inspirational Network

Source: "On the Dramatic Art of Bernard Shaw"

The conflict between clear beauty and clear evil can only create villains and positive characters. Shoddy drama at the center? I don't deal in that shoddy stuff.

Source: "Bernard Shaw's Drama Theory and Practice"

In "A Doll's House" and "Contida", action arouses discussion; in "The Doctor's Dilemma" ”, discussion led to action;? In other scripts, there was discussion everywhere. Sometimes discussion and action intersect throughout.

Source: "Bernard Shaw's Drama Theory and Practice"

Comedy needs a sense of humor and vitality. China Inspirational Network www.zhlzw.com

Source: "Bernard Shaw's Drama Theory"

Playwrights use orators freely and freely. All the rhetorical and lyrical skills of preachers, advocates, and troubadours.

Source: "On George Bernard Shaw's Dramatic Art"

I am a dramatist; but I am not an original dramatist, so I must adopt it from real life. First-hand dramatic material, or use of dramatic material from reliable documents.

Source: "Bernard Shaw's Drama Theory and Practice"

Empty themes cannot be turned into lengthy explanations; but if you have substantial and appropriate materials, you can explain them clearly It won't be too long.

Source: "100 Love Letters of Bernard Shaw"

The job of an artist is to truly express ourselves.

Source: "Man and Superman"

Any true thing will always be modified when it is retold.

Source: "Man and Superman"

The worst thing is that when a false type enters literature, it touches the imagination of young men and women. They regard this type as a model for life, so the fanciful delusions of one generation of novelists and amusement park composers often tend to become unpleasant and harmful realities of the next generation.

Source: "The Life of Bernard Shaw"

We must use him (Shakespeare) to express his character in the characters in the play, his Hamlet, Macbeth, Lear Characters like the King and Prospero are used as the basis for evaluating him.

Source: "The Biography of Bernard Shaw"

The playwright must have a concept of dramatic scenes. It would be better if the playwright thinks that the dramatic scene he is imagining is a great and original concept, but in fact the concept already exists and is very old.

Source: "The Biography of Bernard Shaw"

After creating the situation of misunderstanding, you put the climax of the plot at the end of the last scene and the previous scene. This is where the misunderstandings in the script begin to occur. In the script, you need to explain in detail how the misunderstanding will form through the dialogue of servants, lawyers, and other low-status characters, and also make necessary introductions to the characters in the play to the audience. This completes the first act of the script. The final act must, of course, resolve the misunderstanding and generally try to make the audience leave the theater satisfied.

Source: "The Biography of Bernard Shaw"

I avoid plot like the plague. I have repeatedly advised young playwrights that a plot is like a jigsaw puzzle. The puzzler finds it interesting, but the onlookers find it boring.

Source: "The Biography of Bernard Shaw"

The story requires observation of life, and the plot only requires artificial flowers and the technical control of toys with clock mechanisms and puzzle toys. .

Source: "Bernard Shaw's Drama Theory and Practice"

Your plot structure and the art of psychologically preparing the audience are just clever tricks on the stage and moral reasons. Empty and impoverished expedients are not the weapons of dramatic genius.

Source: "On the Dramatic Art of Bernard Shaw"

A script is a living product, not a mechanically structured object; the plot will destroy the story and therefore destroy the story. Drama with story at its core.

Source: "Bernard Shaw's Drama Theory and Practice"

In a wonderful dialogue, what you see is not a series of statements and declarations or a question and answer manual. Rather, it is a confrontation of ideas between one character and another.

Source: "Bernard Shaw's Drama Theory and Practice"

The way to find out the merits of an argument is not to listen to the words of the fool who thinks he is impartial but to let the relevant people know Characters express their opinions for or against with their own reckless prejudices.

Source: "Bernard Shaw's Drama Theory and Practice"

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Since language was created, it has been used by priests and speakers. It is a technique for touching people's conscience. As long as the playwright has the ability to use it, there is no need for it.

Source: "On the Dramatic Art of George Bernard Shaw"

Rhetoric, ridicule, discussion, contradictions, warnings, meaningful metaphors, and the reduction of disorganized facts into Techniques of orderly and comprehensible scenes, etc. ■ These are the oldest and newest skills in drama.

Source: "On the Dramatic Art of Bernard Shaw"

Beauty, purity, respect, religion, morality, art, patriotism, bravery and others are just words. , anyone can turn them over like a glove.

Source: "Man and Superman"

Language belongs to the advanced nerve center. The world's outstanding articles and poems are all products of advanced nerve centers.

Source: "The Truth Comes Out"

The best humor is the kind that makes people laugh and cry at the same time. The best humor is the kind that makes people laugh and cry at the same time. humor.

Source: "Sixteen Self-Sketchings"

There is a lot of truth in the jokes.

Source: "The Widower's Property"

Yes, I was joking. But the way I tell jokes is to tell the truth. This is the funniest joke in the world.

Source: "Bernard Shaw in Shanghai"

The more times you laugh, the better, because only by laughing can you eliminate evil without malice.

Source: "The Biography of Bernard Shaw"

From some important aspects, the moral standards on the stage are higher than those outside the theater. However, many people think that actors can do all kinds of evil. Criticized by colleagues: This impression is obscene and wrong. But the so-called crime must be a real crime, not just ignoring the law. So ethics on stage. In some important respects, it is higher than outside the theater.

Source: "100 Love Letters of Bernard Shaw"

She is not the kind of actress who can be a genius on the stage and a mortal on the stage. She was able to be an artist and a woman outside of the theatre.

Source: "100 Love Letters of Bernard Shaw"

If I use backstage incidents in my career to stuff the material into my review article about theater performers and polish it, published, then any actor or actress would have a reason to refuse to rehearse in my presence: unfortunately, in fact most actors cannot rehearse in my absence because of my greater obligation to maintain confidentiality. China Inspirational Network

Source: "The Biography of Bernard Shaw"

The phenomenon of personal relationships and professional intimacy with actresses, like-minded people and similar smells, is difficult to avoid in the eyes of the public. Ridiculous misunderstandings arise. Morals and emotions are not exactly the same on either side of the stage.

Source: "The Biography of Bernard Shaw"

Let me explain that a woman (also in Alain Delie's era) must go through long-term training to develop an art and Only by being able to hide emotions in difficult situations and show an absolutely peaceful expression can you be qualified to be a noble woman. The training an actress undergoes is exactly the opposite; she needs to develop an art and a habit. Try to show her emotions as much as possible so that the audience sitting in the back row of the theater can also see her feelings from her appearance and posture.

Source: "100 Love Letters of Bernard Shaw"

In times of emergency, noble women must try to hide their inner reactions, while actresses must wait for the opportunity to burst out their emotions.

Source: "100 Love Letters from Bernard Shaw"

The greater the actress, the greater her power to exert emotional impulses. She not only broadcasts her emotions like through a radio , and the pronunciation is powerful, leaving a deep impression on everyone.

Source: "100 Love Letters from Bernard Shaw"

She had to turn her habits into art, put her will into singing, make it a way to express herself, concentrate herself, and completely devote herself to art. tools.

Source: "100 Love Letters of Bernard Shaw"

She received strict stage technical training when she was a child. Therefore, she has the technical ability to back up her beauty and charm. Success comes naturally to her.

Source: "100 Examples of Bernard Shaw's Love Letters"

But we must know that religious and moral concepts are created by ourselves in the segregated old theaters? Although nine-tenths of them are the same as ordinary people , but the difference is still in the remaining one-tenth.

Source: "100 Love Letters of Bernard Shaw"

Outside the theater, women's sexual relations must be absolutely legitimate, otherwise they will be ostracized, lost, and even condemned by noble people. Various injuries.

Source: "100 Love Letters of Bernard Shaw"

The theater cannot increase its income by relying on the social status of the actors, so the stage only needs actors who can act, not actors with high status.

Source: "100 Love Letters from Bernard Shaw"

In addition to pure technical guidance, what an actor really needs is practical experience.

Source: "The Biography of Bernard Shaw"

According to convention, what happens backstage should never be published in newspapers. An actor has the right to maintain his stage presence.

Source: "The Biography of Bernard Shaw"

I believe that all actors always lack pure emotions. This should be said to be a prejudice.

Source: "The Career of Cashel Byron"

The stage is not one wonderland, but two wonderlands, one is the one that the audience appreciates at the opening; and the other is society. The public will never see it, but it is for theatergoers to enjoy privately after the closing ceremony. In that secret paradise, genius arouses the enthusiastic admiration of those who are moved. This is the only satisfaction of genius. "100 Love Letters from Bernard Shaw"

According to the custom of the stage, people in the theater should maintain personal and loving relationships, but in other professions, they are cold and polite.

Source: "100 Love Letters from Bernard Shaw"

There is a special kind of emotional and congenial relationship behind the theater. This relationship is indeed more reserved than the reserved and formal attitude of urban society outside. To be frank is more sound.

Source: "100 Examples of Bernard Shaw's Love Letters"

The so-called clever measurement methods of physicists are not even looked at by emotionalists.

Source: "100 Love Letters from Bernard Shaw"

The surgeon's so-called skill in surgery is terrifying in the eyes of the patient.

Source: "100 Cases of Bernard Shaw's Love Letters"

The lawyer's so-called successful case caused great losses to both the plaintiff and the defendant.

Source: "100 Examples of Bernard Shaw's Love Letters"