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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... playwright's raw materials — the drama . The dramatic text is not wholly realized until the theater's artists complete for audiences what the playwright began . As Hamlet , Kenneth Branaugh must breathe life into Shakespeare's character ...
... playwright's raw materials — the drama . The dramatic text is not wholly realized until the theater's artists complete for audiences what the playwright began . As Hamlet , Kenneth Branaugh must breathe life into Shakespeare's character ...
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... playwright's concept of the stage as a fictional environment with literal and visible dimensions as well as figurative and sym- bolic meanings . As readers , we seek clues in the text's dialogue and stage directions for how to imagine ...
... playwright's concept of the stage as a fictional environment with literal and visible dimensions as well as figurative and sym- bolic meanings . As readers , we seek clues in the text's dialogue and stage directions for how to imagine ...
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... playwright as dialogue , though when we read a play we tend to equate theater language with words and words with the playwright's text and meaning . Playwrights do not commu- nicate through words alone . The language of a play involves ...
... playwright as dialogue , though when we read a play we tend to equate theater language with words and words with the playwright's text and meaning . Playwrights do not commu- nicate through words alone . The language of a play involves ...
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From Text to Performance | 3 |
PART TWO ELEMENTS OF DRAMA | 13 |
William Shakespeare | 22 |
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