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 223
... eyes behold it . OEDIPUS Darkness ! Horror of darkness enfolding , resistless , unspeakable visitant sped by an ill wind in haste ! madness and stabbing pain and memory of evil deeds I have done ! CHORUS In such misfortunes it's no ...
... eyes behold it . OEDIPUS Darkness ! Horror of darkness enfolding , resistless , unspeakable visitant sped by an ill wind in haste ! madness and stabbing pain and memory of evil deeds I have done ! CHORUS In such misfortunes it's no ...
Page 560
... eyes , honey . ( Li'l Bit , eyes squeezed shut , re- fuses . ) All right then . I just want you to lis- ten . Li'l Bit - I'm going to ask you just this once . Of your own free will . Just lie down on the bed with me our clothes on ...
... eyes , honey . ( Li'l Bit , eyes squeezed shut , re- fuses . ) All right then . I just want you to lis- ten . Li'l Bit - I'm going to ask you just this once . Of your own free will . Just lie down on the bed with me our clothes on ...
Page 673
... eyes , he sees the slave ship in which her ancestors were brought here . That he never looked into his father's eyes is something Wilson must answer only to himself . But surely there must be room for my eyes , too . When I look into my ...
... eyes , he sees the slave ship in which her ancestors were brought here . That he never looked into his father's eyes is something Wilson must answer only to himself . But surely there must be room for my eyes , too . When I look into my ...
Contents
From Text to Performance | 3 |
PART TWO ELEMENTS OF DRAMA | 13 |
William Shakespeare | 22 |
Copyright | |
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