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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Page 112
... walking . AMANDA : That's not true . LAURA : It is . I just went walking . AMANDA : Walking ? Walking ? In winter ? Deliber- ately courting pneumonia in that light coat ? Where did you walk to , Laura ? LAURA : All sorts of places ...
... walking . AMANDA : That's not true . LAURA : It is . I just went walking . AMANDA : Walking ? Walking ? In winter ? Deliber- ately courting pneumonia in that light coat ? Where did you walk to , Laura ? LAURA : All sorts of places ...
Page 178
... walking about the drawing - room , like a visitor . YEPIHODOV : Permit me to inform you that can't start imposing ... walk about , eat or play billiards , the only people who are entitled to judge my actions are those who are older ...
... walking about the drawing - room , like a visitor . YEPIHODOV : Permit me to inform you that can't start imposing ... walk about , eat or play billiards , the only people who are entitled to judge my actions are those who are older ...
Page 458
... walk over top of me in my own house ? That's the ques- tion . You ain't gonna say excuse me ? You just gonna walk over top of me ? CORY : If you wanna put it like that . TROY : How else am I gonna put it ? CORY : I was walking by you to ...
... walk over top of me in my own house ? That's the ques- tion . You ain't gonna say excuse me ? You just gonna walk over top of me ? CORY : If you wanna put it like that . TROY : How else am I gonna put it ? CORY : I was walking by you to ...
Contents
From Text to Performance | 3 |
PART TWO ELEMENTS OF DRAMA | 13 |
William Shakespeare | 22 |
Copyright | |
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