Types of Drama: Plays and EssaysThis text presents a full range of drama from Ancient Greece to the present. It features an informal tone and an apparatus that provides students with reading strategies for the 27 plays anthologized in the text and discussions on how to criticize them. |
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... go , go . Anything's better than to sit there as if you wished you were a thousand miles away . SARAH ( languidly ) : Very well , mamma . ( She goes . ) ( LADY BRITOMART , with a sudden flounce , gives way to a little gust of tears ...
... go , go . Anything's better than to sit there as if you wished you were a thousand miles away . SARAH ( languidly ) : Very well , mamma . ( She goes . ) ( LADY BRITOMART , with a sudden flounce , gives way to a little gust of tears ...
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... goes . ) Adolphus : tell them to send round the carriage in about fifteen minutes . ( ADOLPHUS goes . ) MORRISON ( at the door ) : Mr Undershaft . ( UNDERSHAFT Comes in . MORRISON goes out . ) UNDERSHAFT : Alone ! How fortunate ! LADY ...
... goes . ) Adolphus : tell them to send round the carriage in about fifteen minutes . ( ADOLPHUS goes . ) MORRISON ( at the door ) : Mr Undershaft . ( UNDERSHAFT Comes in . MORRISON goes out . ) UNDERSHAFT : Alone ! How fortunate ! LADY ...
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... ( Goes out with ANYA . VARYA casts a glance around the room and , without hurrying , goes out . YASHA and CHARLOTTA , with her dog , go out . ) LOPAHIN : And so , till spring . Out , ladies and gentlemen - Till we meet . ( Goes out ...
... ( Goes out with ANYA . VARYA casts a glance around the room and , without hurrying , goes out . YASHA and CHARLOTTA , with her dog , go out . ) LOPAHIN : And so , till spring . Out , ladies and gentlemen - Till we meet . ( Goes out ...
Contents
Tragedy and Comedy | 3 |
Setting Lighting Costume Gestures Sound Effects Dialogue Plot | 28 |
OEDIPUS THE KING Sophocles | 69 |
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