Exits and Entrances
A Drama Collection from Stage and Screen
Published on 18. December 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-521-73085-3 (ISBN)
Description
A varied collection of plays, television and film scripts. They are arranged in four themed sections: Identity, Turning points, Deception and Laughter. The collection includes extracts from Henry V, The Elephant Man, Blackadder, Doctor Who, The Alchemist, The Wind in the Willows and Fawlty Towers.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-73085-3 (9780521730853)
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Content
1. Identity: Beauty and the Beast, Laurence Boswell; Doctor Who: Human nature, Paul Cornell; The Elephant Man, De Vore, Bergen and Lynch; A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansbury; Death and the King's Horseman, Wole Soyinka. 2. Turning Points: Nicholas Nickleby, David Edgar; Treasure Island, (Robert Louis Stevenson), David Calcutt; Trifles, Susan Glaspell; Saint Joan, George Bernard Shaw; Henry V, William Shakespeare. 3. Deception: Lad Carl, John O'Connor; The Wind in the Willows, (Kenneth Grahame), Alan Bennett; The Foreigner, Larry Shue; Blackadder, Ben Elton and Richard Curtis. 4. Laughter: Wyrd Sisters, (Terry Pratchett), Stephen Briggs; Fawlty Towers: a Touch of Class, John Cleese and Connie Booth; Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, (Oscar Wilde), Constance Cox; The Alchemist, Ben Johnson.