Understanding PlaysUnderstanding Plays As Texts for Performance offers seventeen plays with critical commentaries that span the range of Western writing for the theatre from the Greeks to the post-moderns. This book introduces readers to dramatic writing as ?pre-texts? for theatrical performance?written not only to be read, but also to be performed by actors before audiences. |
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Contents
PART TWO ELEMENTS OF DRAMA | 13 |
Understanding Character | 97 |
CHAPTER 4 | 147 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Understanding Plays |
| Author | Milly S. Barranger |
| Edition | 3, illustrated |
| Publisher | Allyn and Bacon, 2004 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 2 Apr 2008 |
| ISBN | 0205381901, 9780205381906 |
| Length | 738 pages |
| Subjects | › › Drama / General Performing Arts / Theater / General |
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