Samuel Beckett's play Breath is thirty-five seconds long and consists of two cries. The script is online here: http://www.samuel-beckett.net/breath.htm
Why does the script specify that:
Faint light on stage littered with miscellaneous rubbish. Hold for about five seconds.
and
R...
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I heard this in audio form, probably on a cassette or maybe CD, in the early noughties (2001-2006); I don't know how old it was, or whether or not it was an audio adaptation of a published novel. Essentially it was a version of the Iliad (I don't think it also included the Odyssey, but I'm not ce...
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We currently have a tag the-art-of-war with the following tag wiki excerpt:
For questions about The Art of War, the book by Sun Tzu. Use in conjunction with [sun-tzu].
While Sun Zi's The Art of War is certainly the most famous military treatise by this title, it is by no means the only one,...
In Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Hamlet has a famous monologue about how to properly perform a play. During one portion of the monologue, he has some harsh words for people who improvise:
O, reform it altogether. And let those that play
your clowns speak no more than is set down for them;
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I've been listening to recordings of Emily Dickinson's poem "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" on Youtube. And most of the recordings that I've found seem to render the poem in a flat, dry voice. An extreme example of this is this reading by the website "Pearls of Wisdom", which was read in a way that on...
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Quite simply asked, novelizations are literature, but they started as "screen" works. Should they be considered on-topic?
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There are a few question on Sci-Fi and Fantasy SE asking for a comparison of a book and its adaptation. Off hand, I could find a question about The Martian, and question about Harry Potter with an epic answer. The corresponding tag is adaptation-comparison.
Given all that, what is our opinion o...
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I'm trying to learn more about performance, and I stumbled across Kevin Spacey's production of Shakespeare's Richard III. Here's a link to a youtube video with some highlights.
One of the production decisions that I don't really understand is the decision of make Kevin Spacey's character, Richar...
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Stjepan Sejic's Sunstone was first published as a webcomic on his DeviantArt account (and is still available there), as was his Death Vigil. Linda Sejic's Blood Stain is published on her DeviantArt first, before being published by Image Comics.
Question is - why? Why would Image Comics publish s...
The Dark Tower is an incomplete manuscript posthumously attributed to C. S. Lewis. There has been widespread controversy about whether it was actually written by C. S. Lewis.
What evidence do scholars offer for and against it being written by C. S. Lewis?
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If we go by the text of Shakespeare's Richard III, Richard has a hunchback. In Act I, scene 3, line 246, Queen Margaret describes Richard as a "poisonous bunch-back'd toad." And in act IV, scene 4, line 81 Queen Elizabeth also describes Richard as "that foul bunch-back'd toad."
However, in the 1...
