Author: Hugo Bowles
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027233403
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
How do characters tell stories in plays and for what dramatic purpose? This volume provides the first systematic analysis of narrative episodes in drama from an interactional perspective, applying sociolinguistic theories of narrative and insights from conversation analysis to literary dialogue. The aim of the book is to show how narration can become drama and how analysis of the way a character tells a story can be the key to understanding its role in the unfolding action. The book s interactional approach, which analyses the way in which the characteristic features of everyday conversational stories are used by dramatists to create literary effects, offers an additional tool for dramatic criticism. The book should be of interest to scholars and students of narrative research, conversation and discourse analysis, stylistics, dramatic discourse and theatre studies. Winner of 2012 Esse Book Award for Language and Linguistics"
Story Plays
Author: Louise C. Wright
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Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Story Plays Old and New
Author: Alice Sumner Varney
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Category : Amateur plays
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Category : Amateur plays
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Short Plays from Great Stories
Author: Roland English Hartley
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Selected Plays
Author: James Purdy
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1566637988
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"James Purdy's Selected plays will break your damaged little heart."--John Winter."James Purdy's plays have much of the exciting existentiality that infuses his novels and seem content to take drama to interesting places it does not always want to go." -- Edward Albee."James Purdy is an authentic American genius." --Gore Vidal.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1566637988
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"James Purdy's Selected plays will break your damaged little heart."--John Winter."James Purdy's plays have much of the exciting existentiality that infuses his novels and seem content to take drama to interesting places it does not always want to go." -- Edward Albee."James Purdy is an authentic American genius." --Gore Vidal.
Oscar Wilde's Society Plays
Author: Michael Y. Bennett
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137410930
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
As the first collection of essays about Oscar Wilde's comedies, the contributors re-evaluate Oscar Wilde's society plays as 'comedies of manners" to see whether this is actually an apt way to read Wilde's most emblematic plays. Focusing on both the context and the texts, the collection locates Wilde both in his social and literary contexts.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137410930
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
As the first collection of essays about Oscar Wilde's comedies, the contributors re-evaluate Oscar Wilde's society plays as 'comedies of manners" to see whether this is actually an apt way to read Wilde's most emblematic plays. Focusing on both the context and the texts, the collection locates Wilde both in his social and literary contexts.
Child-garden of Story, Song and Play
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Category : Kindergarten
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Category : Kindergarten
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Women and Shakespeare's Cuckoldry Plays
Author: Cristina León Alfar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1134773382
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
How does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina León Alfar pursues these questions to tease out familiar cultural stories about female sexuality that recur in the form of a slander narrative throughout William Shakespeare’s work. She argues that the plays stage a structure of accusation and defense that unravels the authority of husbands to make and unmake wives. While men’s accusations are built on a foundation of political, religious, legal, and domestic discourses about men’s superiority to, and rule over, women, whose weaker natures render them perpetually suspect, women’s bonds with other women animate defenses of virtue and obedience, fidelity and love, work loose the fabric of patrilineal power that undergirds masculine privileges in marriage, and signify a discursive shift that constitutes the site of agency within a system of oppression that ought to prohibit such agency. That women’s agency in the early modern period must be tied to the formations of power that officially demand their subjection need not undermine their acts. In what Alfar calls Shakespeare’s cuckoldry plays, women’s rhetoric of defense is both subject to the discourse of sexual honor and finds a ground on which to “shift it” as women take control of and replace sexual slander with their own narratives of marital betrayal.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1134773382
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
How does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina León Alfar pursues these questions to tease out familiar cultural stories about female sexuality that recur in the form of a slander narrative throughout William Shakespeare’s work. She argues that the plays stage a structure of accusation and defense that unravels the authority of husbands to make and unmake wives. While men’s accusations are built on a foundation of political, religious, legal, and domestic discourses about men’s superiority to, and rule over, women, whose weaker natures render them perpetually suspect, women’s bonds with other women animate defenses of virtue and obedience, fidelity and love, work loose the fabric of patrilineal power that undergirds masculine privileges in marriage, and signify a discursive shift that constitutes the site of agency within a system of oppression that ought to prohibit such agency. That women’s agency in the early modern period must be tied to the formations of power that officially demand their subjection need not undermine their acts. In what Alfar calls Shakespeare’s cuckoldry plays, women’s rhetoric of defense is both subject to the discourse of sexual honor and finds a ground on which to “shift it” as women take control of and replace sexual slander with their own narratives of marital betrayal.
Writing and Staging Funny Plays
Author: Charlotte Guillain
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1484627695
Category : Children's theater
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
What makes people laugh? How can you write a funny play? How can you turn a hilarious script into a side-splitting production?
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1484627695
Category : Children's theater
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
What makes people laugh? How can you write a funny play? How can you turn a hilarious script into a side-splitting production?
Holiday Plays
Author: Carol B. Kaplan-Lyss
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
ISBN: 1558631070
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday stories are adapted to music and performed as a musical drama. The children design the costumes, set decorations, and libretto through various art activities to incorporate all aspects of the production into the curriculum. The book contains songs, music, step-by-step directions for classroom use or performance, and related activities. The CD contains both songs with lyrics, and piano accompaniment only. Material is designed for non-musical teachers.
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
ISBN: 1558631070
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday stories are adapted to music and performed as a musical drama. The children design the costumes, set decorations, and libretto through various art activities to incorporate all aspects of the production into the curriculum. The book contains songs, music, step-by-step directions for classroom use or performance, and related activities. The CD contains both songs with lyrics, and piano accompaniment only. Material is designed for non-musical teachers.
The Practice of Organized Play
Author: Wilbur Pardon Bowen
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Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Publisher:
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Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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