Pivotal lines in Shakespeare and others: finding the heart of the play
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Beteilige Person: Homan, Sidney 1938- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Routledge 2023
Schriftenreihe:Routledge studies in Shakespeare
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Abstract:"Sidney Homan defines a pivotal line as "a moment in the script that serves as a pathway into the larger play ... a magnet to which the rest of the play, scenes before and after, adheres." He offers his personal choices of such lines in five plays by Shakespeare and works by Beckett, Brecht, Pinter, Shepard, and Stoppard. Drawing on his own experience in the theatre as actor and director and on campus as a teacher and scholar, he pairs a Shakespearean play with one by a modern playwright as mirrors for each other. One reviewer calls his approach "ground-breaking." Another observes that his "experience with the particular plays he has chosen is invaluable" since it allows us to find "a wedge into such ironic texts." Academics and students alike will find this volume particularly useful in aiding their own discovery of a pivotal line or moment in the experience of reading about, watching, or performing in a play"--
Beschreibung:2305
Umfang:256 pages 23 cm
ISBN:9781032348629
1032348623
9781032348643
103234864X