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From the preface
The
purpose of The Anatomy of Silence is to provide enjoyable
illumination for the general reader as well as for the theater
professional of characters who were and are interesting to playgoers
past and present. Examination of potentially exciting dialogue and how
it has been or might have been put to use in the presentation of A
Streetcar Named Desire, Hedda Gabler, The Cherry Orchard, Waiting for
Godot, Hamlet, Macbeth, Oedipus Rex, Tartuffe, A Flea in Her Ear, The
Rocky Horror Picture Show, and other plays leads to what was
offered and what the playgoer may have hoped to expect from attending
presentations. Eighteen chapters deal with the extent of which
characters are permitted the exercising of free will in making choices
and decision, and the limits placed on free will by a variety of
factors on and off the stage. Specifics of taste and dogma are
considered regarding the actor, the director, the critic, the censor,
the literateur, the translator, and in all cases, the playgoer.
My
wish is that the reader enjoy this exciting journey through dramatic
literature as much as I enjoyed putting it together.
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