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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... BRACK , and goes out . JUDGE BRACK is forty - five ; rather short , but well built , and elastic in his movements . He has a roundish face with an aristocratic profile . His hair , cut short , is still almost black , and is care- fully ...
... BRACK , and goes out . JUDGE BRACK is forty - five ; rather short , but well built , and elastic in his movements . He has a roundish face with an aristocratic profile . His hair , cut short , is still almost black , and is care- fully ...
Page 388
... BRACK : You haven't had any visitors ? HEDDA ( closes the french windows ) : Not one . I sup- pose the best people are all still in the coun- try . BRACK : Your husband isn't home yet ? HEDDA ( locks the pistol - case away in a drawer ...
... BRACK : You haven't had any visitors ? HEDDA ( closes the french windows ) : Not one . I sup- pose the best people are all still in the coun- try . BRACK : Your husband isn't home yet ? HEDDA ( locks the pistol - case away in a drawer ...
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... BRACK : If you like to put it that way . HEDDA : Do you think it so very strange ? BRACK : Yes and no , Mrs. Hedda . HEDDA : I'd danced myself tired , Judge . I felt my time was up ( Gives a slight shudder . ) No , I mustn't say that ...
... BRACK : If you like to put it that way . HEDDA : Do you think it so very strange ? BRACK : Yes and no , Mrs. Hedda . HEDDA : I'd danced myself tired , Judge . I felt my time was up ( Gives a slight shudder . ) No , I mustn't say that ...
Contents
From Text to Performance | 3 |
PART TWO ELEMENTS OF DRAMA | 13 |
William Shakespeare | 22 |
Copyright | |
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