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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... drama , " we also use the words " drama " and " dramatic " to describe many events ranging from riots to parades , from sports events to political speeches . These current events are life's " dramas " but not dramatic " texts . " Martin ...
... drama , " we also use the words " drama " and " dramatic " to describe many events ranging from riots to parades , from sports events to political speeches . These current events are life's " dramas " but not dramatic " texts . " Martin ...
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... DRAMA'S SPECIAL MIRRORS In writing about the practice of making plays and theater , German playwright Bertolt Brecht used the metaphor of " special mirrors " to describe the changing ... DRAMA Drama's Special Mirrors Climactic Play Structure.
... DRAMA'S SPECIAL MIRRORS In writing about the practice of making plays and theater , German playwright Bertolt Brecht used the metaphor of " special mirrors " to describe the changing ... DRAMA Drama's Special Mirrors Climactic Play Structure.
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... DRAMA Until very recently , approaches to play analysis had their roots in Aristotle's Poetics , a fragmen- tary treatise of the fourth century B.C. that re- mains the ... DRAMATIC WRITING Origins of Theater and Drama Aristotle's Definitions.
... DRAMA Until very recently , approaches to play analysis had their roots in Aristotle's Poetics , a fragmen- tary treatise of the fourth century B.C. that re- mains the ... DRAMATIC WRITING Origins of Theater and Drama Aristotle's Definitions.
Contents
From Text to Performance | 3 |
PART TWO ELEMENTS OF DRAMA | 13 |
William Shakespeare | 22 |
Copyright | |
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