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How to Read a Play is an introductory guide to the art of translating the printed page of a play or screenplay into dramatic mental images; it has been a classic among actors, directors, and writers for the past twenty years. Now fully updated and revised, the book devotes a chapter exclusively to screenplays, noting the intrinsic differences between a screenplay and a playscript and thus bringing this invaluable classic up to date.
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Discussing such elements of drama as stage directions, sound effects, characterization, and irony, a theater critic-actor-playwright helps readers of plays form mental images of theatrical action.
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