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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... face . Legend on screen : " And so goodbye .... " TOM's closing speech is timed with what is hap- pening inside the house . We see , as though through soundproof glass , that AMANDA ap- pears to be making a comforting speech to LAURA ...
... face . Legend on screen : " And so goodbye .... " TOM's closing speech is timed with what is hap- pening inside the house . We see , as though through soundproof glass , that AMANDA ap- pears to be making a comforting speech to LAURA ...
Page 358
... face . He holds it there . ) I'm going to hell for doing this . LOUIS : Big deal . You think it could be any worse than New York City ? ( He puts his hand on Joe's hand . He takes Joe's hand away from his face , holds it for a mo- ment ...
... face . He holds it there . ) I'm going to hell for doing this . LOUIS : Big deal . You think it could be any worse than New York City ? ( He puts his hand on Joe's hand . He takes Joe's hand away from his face , holds it for a mo- ment ...
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... faces , looking down on me . And on each face , a story , some I have been told , some I can only imagine , and some I will never know at all . But many of them , people not so different from myself , who struggled with what to keep ...
... faces , looking down on me . And on each face , a story , some I have been told , some I can only imagine , and some I will never know at all . But many of them , people not so different from myself , who struggled with what to keep ...
Contents
From Text to Performance | 3 |
PART TWO ELEMENTS OF DRAMA | 13 |
William Shakespeare | 22 |
Copyright | |
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