Understanding PlaysAllyn and Bacon, 2004 - 738 páginas 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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... social catastrophe inherent in The Glass Menag- erie lies precisely in the fact that Laura is not Cin- derella : the silver slipper does not finally fit , and Jim is not Prince Charming but one of the innu- merable Americans who would ...
... social catastrophe inherent in The Glass Menag- erie lies precisely in the fact that Laura is not Cin- derella : the silver slipper does not finally fit , and Jim is not Prince Charming but one of the innu- merable Americans who would ...
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... social realism - The Pillars of Society , An Enemy of the People , A Doll's House , Ghosts , Rosmersholm , and The Wild Duck - estab- lished many tenets of new writing for the stage . First , the new subjects dealt with corrupt busi ...
... social realism - The Pillars of Society , An Enemy of the People , A Doll's House , Ghosts , Rosmersholm , and The Wild Duck - estab- lished many tenets of new writing for the stage . First , the new subjects dealt with corrupt busi ...
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... social import , thus creating the social problem play ( the pièce à these ) which became a staple of European and American dramatic writing after 1850. The reason such writers as George Bernard Shaw , Oscar Wilde , Arthur Wing Pinero ...
... social import , thus creating the social problem play ( the pièce à these ) which became a staple of European and American dramatic writing after 1850. The reason such writers as George Bernard Shaw , Oscar Wilde , Arthur Wing Pinero ...
Contenido
From Text to Performance | 3 |
PART TWO ELEMENTS OF DRAMA | 13 |
William Shakespeare | 22 |
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Otras 17 secciones no mostradas
Términos y frases comunes
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