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creative exercise of his dramatist’s functions. A rebellion doesn’t make drama neither does the burning of a hotel or a callous digger hunt. What makes drama is the light of individual human character shining through those events, and the impact of one character on another with those events as driving forces.
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Eurekea as a subject consistently defies the most energetic and sincere attempts to render it on a stage... the historical events are themselves too naturally and objectively dramatic. They are so dramatic, as well as complicated, that any potential author is likely to be inhibited from a truly
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