Understanding Plays"Understanding 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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From Text to Performance | 3 |
Buried Child Sam Shepard | 13 |
Tragedy | 61 |
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