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  title info:
    title: Pivotal lines in Shakespeare and others
    sub title: finding the heart of the play
  name:
    name part: Homan, Sidney
    name part: 1938-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 216 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 theater 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 ironic 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.
  note: Sidney Homan.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
    topic: Criticism, Textual
  subject:
    topic: Drama
    topic: Criticism, Textual
  classification: PR3071 .H59 2023
  classification: 822.3/3
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Routledge studies in Shakespeare
  identifier: 9781032348629
  identifier: 1032348623
  identifier: 9781032348643
  identifier: 103234864X
  identifier: 9781003324188
  identifier: 9781000893038
  identifier: 9781000892987
  identifier: 2022060019
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230113
    record change date: 20231115151419.3
    record identifier: in00004752247