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Pivotal Lines in Shakespeare and Others
Finding the Heart of the Play
Sidney Homan
- 256 pages
- English
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Pivotal Lines in Shakespeare and Others
Finding the Heart of the Play
Sidney Homan
About This Book
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 iconic 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Pivotal Lines in Shakespeare and Others: Finding the Heart of the Play
- PART I The Theatreâs Other Side: Hamlet and Stoppardâs Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- PART II Pivotal Moments: The Taming of the Shrew and Pinterâs Old Times
- PART III Expanding the World Onstage: A Midsummer Nightâs Dream and Shepardâs True West
- PART IV Theatrical Presence: The Comedy of Errors and Beckettâs Waiting for Godot
- PART V Playing Offstage: Brechtâs and Weillâs The Threepenny Opera and King Lear
- Index