In the great drama the audience wonders what might happen next? (This is called suspense.) They prognosticate possible reactions and outcomes and can’t wait to see if these are correct. If their guesses are proved incorrect but reasonable, the competent dramatist has outthought them. If he continues to do so, not only in each interchange but in each scene, the play as a whole may terminate in a way unforeseen but retrospectively and reasonably inevitable. Now we have an actual, organic drama. If not, the audience has been tricked, bribed, or lured into watching that hackwork that is
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