Understanding PlaysAllyn and Bacon, 2004 - 738 sider 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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Side 16
... play structure generally as climactic , epi- sodic , situational , or reflexive . These terms are descriptive of plays by Sophocles , William Shakespeare , Samuel Beckett , and Suzan - Lori Parks . Others have devised such terms as the ...
... play structure generally as climactic , epi- sodic , situational , or reflexive . These terms are descriptive of plays by Sophocles , William Shakespeare , Samuel Beckett , and Suzan - Lori Parks . Others have devised such terms as the ...
Side 95
... PLAY STRUCTURE A play's structure is largely shaped by two fac- tors : how the writer perceives human experi- ence and by established writing conventions he or she may adopt , reject , reconstruct , or alter in the creation of a play . A ...
... PLAY STRUCTURE A play's structure is largely shaped by two fac- tors : how the writer perceives human experi- ence and by established writing conventions he or she may adopt , reject , reconstruct , or alter in the creation of a play . A ...
Side 423
... PLAY Plays have been " well made " for centuries . Sophocles wrote the play most admired by Aris- totle and later generations for its perfection of taut construction and moral lesson . That play was Oedipus the King . The term well - made ...
... PLAY Plays have been " well made " for centuries . Sophocles wrote the play most admired by Aris- totle and later generations for its perfection of taut construction and moral lesson . That play was Oedipus the King . The term well - made ...
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From Text to Performance | 3 |
PART TWO ELEMENTS OF DRAMA | 13 |
William Shakespeare | 22 |
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