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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Milly S. Barranger. back . I said pleurosis - he thought that I said Blue Roses ! So that's what he always called me after that . Whenever he saw me , he'd holler , " Hello , Blue Roses ! " I didn't care for the girl that he went out ...
Milly S. Barranger. back . I said pleurosis - he thought that I said Blue Roses ! So that's what he always called me after that . Whenever he saw me , he'd holler , " Hello , Blue Roses ! " I didn't care for the girl that he went out ...
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... that . LOUIS : Fuck you . ( Letting go ) Fuck you fuck you fuck you . PRIOR : Now that's what I like to hear . A mature reaction . Let's go see if the cat's come home . Louis ? LOUIS : When did you find this ? PRIOR : I couldn't tell ...
... that . LOUIS : Fuck you . ( Letting go ) Fuck you fuck you fuck you . PRIOR : Now that's what I like to hear . A mature reaction . Let's go see if the cat's come home . Louis ? LOUIS : When did you find this ? PRIOR : I couldn't tell ...
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... that , Bono . If you was messing around on Lucille I'd be telling you the same thing . BONO : Well , that's all I got to say . I just say that because I love you both . TROY : Hell , you know me ... I wasn't out there looking for ...
... that , Bono . If you was messing around on Lucille I'd be telling you the same thing . BONO : Well , that's all I got to say . I just say that because I love you both . TROY : Hell , you know me ... I wasn't out there looking for ...
Contents
From Text to Performance | 3 |
PART TWO ELEMENTS OF DRAMA | 13 |
William Shakespeare | 22 |
Copyright | |
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