Author : Daniel Corkery
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330788462
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (884 download)
Book Synopsis The Yellow Bittern, and Other Plays (Classic Reprint) by : Daniel Corkery
Download or read book The Yellow Bittern, and Other Plays (Classic Reprint) written by Daniel Corkery and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Yellow Bittern, and Other Plays The modern stage direction, the descriptive stage direction (the phrase is a contradiction in terms), as it is called, is it worth while? For some reviewers, if we are to believe them, these page-long "directions" make a drama as interesting as a novel: one thinks of the sun being brought at last to shine like the moon! For others they create atmosphere. But Maeterlinck knows a way of doing so that is far more effective, and so did Shakespeare: - "This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses - " Here place and feeling are important things, but the most important thing is that it is Duncan who speaks in this way of Macbeth's castle, while in the passage: - "Light thickens and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood - " the most important thing is that it is Macbeth who speaks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.