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Updated: May 19, 2025
For I planned to begin a four-act play on Judas, and must study for writing that, as well as learn the "how" of the lyric.... The stupendousness of the silence of absolute solitude!
It is right there that this part of the first act of this wonderful four-act drama or play should be wrought out, and if they are omitted or disregarded, the play will end in tragedy, with all the leading actors left dead upon the stage!
I did not explain that in my desk lay a four-act drama throbbing with humanity, with life, with which it had been my hope growing each day fainter to take the theatrical public by storm, to establish myself as a serious playwright. "It's very simple," urged Hodgson. "Provide Atherton plenty of comic business; you ought to be able to do that all right.
"The opening of the Lyceum on Saturday evening, was signalized by the assembly of a crowded and fashionable audience to witness the first appearance in this country of Miss Mary Anderson as Parthenia in Maria Lovell's four-act play of 'Ingomar. Though young in years, Miss Anderson is evidently a practiced actress.
Nowadays the four-act form with a strong climax at the end of the third act seems to be most often used. This is the form, for instance, of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, of Mr. Jones's Mrs. Dane's Defense, and of Sir Arthur Pinero's The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith, and The Gay Lord Quex. Each begins with an act of exposition, followed by an act of rising interest.
Dumas fils retired to the country and wrote La Dame aux Camélias a four-act play in eight successive days. But he had previously told the same story in a novel; he knew everything that was to happen in his play; and the mere writing could be done in a single headlong dash. Voltaire's best tragedy, Zaïre, was written in three weeks.
Least of all could he reveal them in this moment of disillusion. He had never told Bertram about the four-act comedy hidden in the writing desk of their common room, to be mulled over during the mornings of his leisure. "I think I'll stay with it for a while, anyway," he added simply. They had turned out of Kearney Street and were mounting the hill-rise toward the Hotel Marseillaise.
Incidentally, why is it that one gets so thirsty at the theatre? We never get thirsty at the movies, or not nearly so thirsty. The other evening we drank seven paper cups full of water in the intermissions of a four-act play. People behind one have a horrible advantage.
In the meantime don't let them make you bourgeois in Kansas ... don't let them smash you into the academic mould." "They haven't so far, have they?" "But what in the world are you going back to Kansas for?" "Because I have them trained there to accept me. I can do pretty much as I choose at the university. But mainly I want to write my four-act play in earnest my New Testament drama, Judas.
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