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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... leave and pardon . 65 KING Have you your POLONIUS father's leave ? What says Polonius ? He hath , my lord , wrung from me my slow leave By laborsome petition , and at last Upon his will I sealed my hard consent . ° I do beseech you give him ...
... leave and pardon . 65 KING Have you your POLONIUS father's leave ? What says Polonius ? He hath , my lord , wrung from me my slow leave By laborsome petition , and at last Upon his will I sealed my hard consent . ° I do beseech you give him ...
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... leave thee , love , and shortly too ; 245 My operant ° powers their functions leave to do : And thou shalt live in this fair world behind , Honored , beloved , and haply one as kind For husband shalt thou- PLAYER QUEEN 250 O , confound ...
... leave thee , love , and shortly too ; 245 My operant ° powers their functions leave to do : And thou shalt live in this fair world behind , Honored , beloved , and haply one as kind For husband shalt thou- PLAYER QUEEN 250 O , confound ...
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... leave what you're doing for a minute ! Varia ! ( Goes out with YASHA . ) LOPAKHIN ( glancing at his watch ) : Yes .... ( A pause . ) Suppressed laughter and whispering is heard from behind the door , and finally VARIA comes in and ...
... leave what you're doing for a minute ! Varia ! ( Goes out with YASHA . ) LOPAKHIN ( glancing at his watch ) : Yes .... ( A pause . ) Suppressed laughter and whispering is heard from behind the door , and finally VARIA comes in and ...
Contents
From Text to Performance | 3 |
PART TWO ELEMENTS OF DRAMA | 13 |
William Shakespeare | 22 |
Copyright | |
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AARON MCKINNEY actors ain't ALFREDO ALGERNON AMANDA American ANDREA Angels in America ANIA audience August Wilson BAINES BELIZE BONO BRACK Brecht called CECILY characters comedy CORY CREON dance David Henry Hwang dear drama ELVSTED Enter epic theater exits father FEMALE GREEK CHORUS GALILEO GAYEV Glass Menagerie gonna GWENDOLEN HAMLET HARPER hear HEDDA HORATIO JACK KING LADY BRACKNELL LAERTES Laramie Laramie Project LAURA LI'L BIT LIUBOV ANDRYEEVNA live LIZETTE look LOPAKHIN lord LOUIS LOVBORG LUAN MALE GREEK CHORUS Mama MANUELA Matthew Shepard mean MIMI MIRIAM MISS PRISM MISS TESMAN Moisés Kaufman mother never OEDIPUS Oedipus the King OSCAR OSVALDO Paula Vogel Pause PECK performance play playwright POLONIUS PRIOR ROSE scene SIU-YONG SONIA stage talk tell theater there's thing TIENG-BIN tion Tony Kushner TROFIMOV TROY VARIA voice wife woman writing Yeah