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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... give th ' assay ° of arms against your Majesty . 95 Whereon old Norway , overcome with joy , Gives him threescore thousand crowns in annual fee And his commission to employ those soldiers , So levied as before , against the Polack , 100 ...
... give th ' assay ° of arms against your Majesty . 95 Whereon old Norway , overcome with joy , Gives him threescore thousand crowns in annual fee And his commission to employ those soldiers , So levied as before , against the Polack , 100 ...
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... Give me the foils , young Osric . Cousin Hamlet , You know the wager ? HAMLET 370 Very well , my lord . 375 Your grace has laid the odds o ' th ' weaker side . KING I do not fear it , I have seen you both ; But since he is bettered , we ...
... Give me the foils , young Osric . Cousin Hamlet , You know the wager ? HAMLET 370 Very well , my lord . 375 Your grace has laid the odds o ' th ' weaker side . KING I do not fear it , I have seen you both ; But since he is bettered , we ...
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... give you all the credit you want , but you got to pay the interest on it . " I told him , " Give me three rooms worth and charge whatever you want . " Next day a truck pulled up here and two men unloaded them three rooms . Man what ...
... give you all the credit you want , but you got to pay the interest on it . " I told him , " Give me three rooms worth and charge whatever you want . " Next day a truck pulled up here and two men unloaded them three rooms . Man what ...
Contents
From Text to Performance | 3 |
PART TWO ELEMENTS OF DRAMA | 13 |
William Shakespeare | 22 |
Copyright | |
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