Acting with Style, Volume 10From preface: This book is aimed at helping the actor discover what kind of play he is in--to identify the stylistic clues--and then come to a physical awareness of how it should be played. |
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... drama - Jacobean and French neoclassical , for example , with which we are not dealing directly . Tragic dramas tend to have certain common characteristics . A tragedy pre- sumes a world in which the possibility of godhead exists . It ...
... drama - Jacobean and French neoclassical , for example , with which we are not dealing directly . Tragic dramas tend to have certain common characteristics . A tragedy pre- sumes a world in which the possibility of godhead exists . It ...
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... dramatic form as a play . At other times it may appear as part of a dramatic event : for emotional or rhythmical contrast in a serious drama or tragedy ( the porter's scene in Macbeth , for example ) ; as a more robust and physical ...
... dramatic form as a play . At other times it may appear as part of a dramatic event : for emotional or rhythmical contrast in a serious drama or tragedy ( the porter's scene in Macbeth , for example ) ; as a more robust and physical ...
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... drama , 28 Folk drama , 141 Follow my leader ( exercise ) , 46 Ford , John , ' Tis Pity She's a Whore , 252 , 276 Four - letter feelings ( exercise ) , 273–74 Fox hunting , blooding in , 267n Free - flow exercises , 269-71 French ...
... drama , 28 Folk drama , 141 Follow my leader ( exercise ) , 46 Ford , John , ' Tis Pity She's a Whore , 252 , 276 Four - letter feelings ( exercise ) , 273–74 Fox hunting , blooding in , 267n Free - flow exercises , 269-71 French ...
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