Author: Binney Gunnison

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-13

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 9781331341161

Excerpt from New Dialogues and Plays: Primary, Intermediate, Advanced; Adapted From the Popular Works or Well-Known Authors Dramatization of popular novels is the fashion of the day. In this volume are dramatizations of a somewhat different kind. Many novels utterly unsuited to complete dramatization have striking scenes full of dramatic possibilities. A few such scenes are here presented as dialogues. They are for children, for school boys and girls, for "studies" in professional schools of dramatic training, and even for entertainments of the highest class and professional aim. Too many books of dialogues have been published without any particular reference to actual performance on platform or stage. There are no suggestions of stage business; the characters neither enter nor leave; while the dialogue progresses, no one apparently moves or feels emotion. Nothing is said at the beginning of the dialogue to show the situation of the characters; no hints are given as to the part about to be played. In plays, as ordinarily printed, there is very little to show either character or situation, all must be found out by a thorough study of the play. This may be well for the careful student, but the average amateur has no time, and often only little inclination, to peruse a whole play or a whole novel in order to play a little part in an entertainment. Perhaps the strongest feature of this book is the carefully prepared introduction to each dialogue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.