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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... lord , my lord ! Enter HORATIO and MARCELLUS . MARCELLUS Lord Hamlet ! HORATIO Heavens secure him ! HAMLET So be it ! MARCELLUS O Illo , ho , ho , my lord ! HAMLET Hillo , ho , ho , boy ! Come , bird , come . MARCELLUS How is't , my noble ...
... lord , my lord ! Enter HORATIO and MARCELLUS . MARCELLUS Lord Hamlet ! HORATIO Heavens secure him ! HAMLET So be it ! MARCELLUS O Illo , ho , ho , my lord ! HAMLET Hillo , ho , ho , boy ! Come , bird , come . MARCELLUS How is't , my noble ...
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... lord ? HAMLET Excellent well . You are a fishmonger . POLONIUS 240 Not I , my lord . 245 250 255 HAMLET Then I would you were so honest a man . POLONIUS Honest , my lord ? HAMLET Ay , sir . To be honest , as this world goes , is to be ...
... lord ? HAMLET Excellent well . You are a fishmonger . POLONIUS 240 Not I , my lord . 245 250 255 HAMLET Then I would you were so honest a man . POLONIUS Honest , my lord ? HAMLET Ay , sir . To be honest , as this world goes , is to be ...
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... Lord Hamlet ! HAMLET 5 But soft , what noise ? Who calls on Hamlet ? O , here 10 15 they come . Enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN . ROSENCRANTZ What have you done , my lord , with the dead body ? HAMLET Compounded it with dust ...
... Lord Hamlet ! HAMLET 5 But soft , what noise ? Who calls on Hamlet ? O , here 10 15 they come . Enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN . ROSENCRANTZ What have you done , my lord , with the dead body ? HAMLET Compounded it with dust ...
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