If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the worldis provided by a writer. Farce is acted. The writer's contribution seems not only absorbed but translated. . . . One cannot imagine melodrama being improvised. The improvised drama was pre-eminently farce.
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