Theater and IncarnationThis introduction to the theatre also attempts to offer a meditation on the theatricality of the Incarnation. Arguing that both biblical and dramatic texts should be approached with a theatrical rather than a literary imagination, the author explores theatrical history. |
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... speech and action whose final artistic life is only suggested on the manuscript page'2 ; in short , that a transformation is effected when words are staged . It is also a good place to begin a consideration of the relationship between ...
... speech and action whose final artistic life is only suggested on the manuscript page'2 ; in short , that a transformation is effected when words are staged . It is also a good place to begin a consideration of the relationship between ...
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... speech in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus . At one point , Mozart is impetuously defending his decision to write an opera ... speech , or action from one part of the stage remark on speech from another , as in spoken theatre , but words set to ...
... speech in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus . At one point , Mozart is impetuously defending his decision to write an opera ... speech , or action from one part of the stage remark on speech from another , as in spoken theatre , but words set to ...
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... speech not physical action is the medium of this theatre . A neo - classical dramatist would have viewed with horror the kind of scene we admired earlier in the Cornish Ordinalia : lust at the smithy and crucifixion at Calvary . The ...
... speech not physical action is the medium of this theatre . A neo - classical dramatist would have viewed with horror the kind of scene we admired earlier in the Cornish Ordinalia : lust at the smithy and crucifixion at Calvary . The ...
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