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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... stage as a fictional environment with literal and visible dimensions as well as figurative and sym- bolic meanings . As readers , we seek clues in the text's dialogue and stage directions for how to imagine the " look " of the play's ...
... stage as a fictional environment with literal and visible dimensions as well as figurative and sym- bolic meanings . As readers , we seek clues in the text's dialogue and stage directions for how to imagine the " look " of the play's ...
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... stage di- rections at the beginning of each act and provide information about how they imagine details of the three - dimensional stage space ; that is , Hedda Gabler's drawing room or Amanda Wingfield's tenement apartment . Stage ...
... stage di- rections at the beginning of each act and provide information about how they imagine details of the three - dimensional stage space ; that is , Hedda Gabler's drawing room or Amanda Wingfield's tenement apartment . Stage ...
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... stage property , adds to the rich language of the theater as both an iconic sign of death and a symbol of mortality . By the nineteenth century , stage language was influenced by the new " realism " and by a theater technology unknown ...
... stage property , adds to the rich language of the theater as both an iconic sign of death and a symbol of mortality . By the nineteenth century , stage language was influenced by the new " realism " and by a theater technology unknown ...
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