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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... TROY : I ain't said no such thing . Whoever told you that is telling a lie . Pearl ain't doing nothing but telling a big fat lie . ROSE : She ain't had to tell me . I read it on the papers . TROY : I ain't told them nothing of the kind ...
... TROY : I ain't said no such thing . Whoever told you that is telling a lie . Pearl ain't doing nothing but telling a big fat lie . ROSE : She ain't had to tell me . I read it on the papers . TROY : I ain't told them nothing of the kind ...
Page 458
... TROY : Nigger , you can't play no dominoes . I used to whup you four games out of five . BONO : Well , that learned me . I'm getting better . TROY : Yeah ? Well , that's alright . BONO : Look here ... I got to be getting on . Stop by ...
... TROY : Nigger , you can't play no dominoes . I used to whup you four games out of five . BONO : Well , that learned me . I'm getting better . TROY : Yeah ? Well , that's alright . BONO : Look here ... I got to be getting on . Stop by ...
Page 459
... TROY : Them feet and bones ! That pumping heart , nigger ! I gave you more than any- body else is ever gonna give ... TROY : You leave your mama you of this . She ain't got nothing to do with this . CORY : I don't know how she stand you ...
... TROY : Them feet and bones ! That pumping heart , nigger ! I gave you more than any- body else is ever gonna give ... TROY : You leave your mama you of this . She ain't got nothing to do with this . CORY : I don't know how she stand you ...
Contents
From Text to Performance | 3 |
PART TWO ELEMENTS OF DRAMA | 13 |
William Shakespeare | 22 |
Copyright | |
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