I have always thought that all the theories of what a good play is, or how a good play should be written, are futile. A good play is a play which, when acted upon the boards, makes an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this is a bad play.

Maurice Baring (1874-1945) English man of letters, writer, essayist, translator

Have You Anything to Declare? (1936)
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