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Dramatic Technique

by George Pierce Baker

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  1. 1Epigraph — Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — Technique in Drama: What It Is. The Drama as an Indepen…
  3. 3Chapter II — The Essentials of Drama: Action and Emotion
  4. 4Scene I
  5. 5Scene 2
  6. 6Scene 1
  7. 7Act I
  8. 8Chapter III — From Subject to Plot. Clearing the Way
  9. 9Curtain
  10. 10Chapter IV — From Subject Through Story to Plot. Clearness Through…
  11. 11Curtain
  12. 12Scene 3 — The Countess’s Castle
  13. 13Chapter V — From Subject to Plot: Proportioning the Material: Numbe…
  14. 14Act III — Scene 1. the Street — Scene 2 — Enter Elvira, in Her Chamber
  15. 15Scene 5 — The Same Persons, Tiburce — Scene 6 — Henriette, Tiburce
  16. 16Scene 7 — Tiburce, Then François
  17. 17Scene 5 — To Them a Servant
  18. 18Scene 6 — Thorowgood, Trueman, and Lucy
  19. 19Scene 8
  20. 20Act II — Prologue
  21. 21Chapter VI — From Subject to Plot: Arrangement for Clearness, Empha…
  22. 22Act I
  23. 23Act I — (Enter Hippolytus, Theramenes.)
  24. 24Act I
  25. 25Scene 1 — Majorin, A Railway Official, Travelers, Porters
  26. 26Scene 2 — The Official, Perrichon, Madame Perrichon, Henriette
  27. 27The Curtain Falls
  28. 28‘The Modern Malady of Love Is Nerves.’”
  29. 29Characters
  30. 30Curtain
  31. 31Curtain
  32. 32Curtain
  33. 33Curtain
  34. 34Curtain
  35. 35Chapter VII — Characterization
  36. 36Act IV — Scene, Covent Garden
  37. 37Act IV
  38. 38Scene 9
  39. 39Chapter VIII — Dialogue
  40. 40Act I — Scene — An Apartment in Young Honeywood’s House
  41. 41Scene 1
  42. 42Curtain
  43. 43Scene III — A Street
  44. 44The End of the Third Act
  45. 45Enter Lady Susan
  46. 46The Curtain Falls
  47. 47Curtain
  48. 48Scene 1
  49. 49Act I
  50. 50Act III
  51. 51(Lady Bracknell Sweeps Out in Majestic Indignation.)
  52. 52Chapter IX — Making a Scenario
  53. 53Characters
  54. 54Part I
  55. 55Part II
  56. 56Act I
  57. 57Dramatis Personæ
  58. 58Act I
  59. 59Act I
  60. 60Act II
  61. 61Act I
  62. 62Characters
  63. 63Characters
  64. 64Dramatis Personæ
  65. 65Scene 1
  66. 66Dramatis Personæ
  67. 67Act I
  68. 68Act II
  69. 69Dramatis Personæ
  70. 70Kismet — Or Hajji’s Day — Scenario for a Play in Three Acts, by Edw…
  71. 71Act III
  72. 72Act I
  73. 73Scene 2 — The Bazaar. (Large Set)
  74. 74Scene 3 — (For “Zira” Read “Marsinah.”)
  75. 75Scene 4 — Hall in Executioner’s House (Large Set). A Colonnade at B…
  76. 76Act II — An Inner Chamber in Executioner’s House. Door Leading to H…
  77. 77Scene 2
  78. 78Scene 3
  79. 79Scene 4
  80. 80Act III
  81. 81Scene 2 — [In the Play Act III Begins Here.]
  82. 82Chapter X — The Dramatist and His Public

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