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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Page 164
... GAYEV : Yes , and now the orchard is going to be sold to pay our debts , strange as it seems .... LIUBOV ANDRYEEVNA : Look , there's Mother walk- ing through the orchard ... in a white dress ! ( Laughs happily . ) It is her ! GAYEV ...
... GAYEV : Yes , and now the orchard is going to be sold to pay our debts , strange as it seems .... LIUBOV ANDRYEEVNA : Look , there's Mother walk- ing through the orchard ... in a white dress ! ( Laughs happily . ) It is her ! GAYEV ...
Page 165
... GAYEV : Yes .... You know , if a lot of cures are sug- gested for a disease , it means that the dis- ease is incurable . I've been thinking and puzzling my brains , and I've thought of plenty of ways out , plenty - which means there ...
... GAYEV : Yes .... You know , if a lot of cures are sug- gested for a disease , it means that the dis- ease is incurable . I've been thinking and puzzling my brains , and I've thought of plenty of ways out , plenty - which means there ...
Page 168
... GAYEV ( yawns ) : What do you say ? LIUBOV ANDRYEEVNA ( looking into her purse ) : Yes- terday I had a lot of money ... GAYEV ( waving his hand ) : I'm hopeless , I know . ( To YASHA , with irritation . ) Why are you al- ways buzzing ...
... GAYEV ( yawns ) : What do you say ? LIUBOV ANDRYEEVNA ( looking into her purse ) : Yes- terday I had a lot of money ... GAYEV ( waving his hand ) : I'm hopeless , I know . ( To YASHA , with irritation . ) Why are you al- ways buzzing ...
Contents
From Text to Performance | 3 |
PART TWO ELEMENTS OF DRAMA | 13 |
William Shakespeare | 22 |
Copyright | |
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