The performance orientation of dramatic texts with specific reference to dialogue and didascalies in Athol Fugard's Playland and My children! My Africa!
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Authors
Gabashane, Anthony Daniel
Issue Date
1996-06
Type
Dissertation
Language
en
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Abstract
The preceding study has been prompted by the inordinate stress placed
on the separation between dramatic texts as literature and stage
performances as theatre an approach still widely adopted in
universities and colleges of education throughout the world.
The traditional distinction between the dramatic text and its stage
performance is first accounted for and then re-examined in the light of
the new insights gained from semiotics. In the discussion of the
relationship between the, dramatic text and performance, care is
exercised not to approach the subject with a bias towards the text as
more important than the performance or vice versa. The performance
orientation of various elements of a dramatic text is then considered
with special emphasis placed on dialogue and didascalies in dramatic
texts generally.
The focus of attention is eventually narrowed down to the dialogue and
didascalies in Athol Fugard's Plavland and My Children! My Africa!
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Gabashane, Anthony Daniel (1996) The performance orientation of dramatic texts with specific reference to dialogue and didascalies in Athol Fugard's Playland and My children! My Africa!, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16821>