Literature Appreciation: How To Read Plays

Literature Appreciation: How To Read Plays Coronet Instructional Films 06:16:24 Woman talking on phone seen on television set. Hand turns it off, teenage boy in living room, stretches, walks over & picks up book & sits at desk. CU title page: Oedipus Rex, dissolve to poster for MacBeth, pan row of books of plays. Boy imagines, opens book. Finger in CU pointing to lines of dialogue & stage directions. Boy imagining, smiles. 06:18:14 Man w/ tennis racket walks across stage set, opens desk & looks for something. 06:18:47 Written instructions for previous scene. Boy imagines. Gets another book & begins reding She Stoops To Conquer: or The Mistakes of a Night by Oliver Goldsmith. Setting of country house. 06:19:54 Curtain raised on chamber in old fashionied house; reading dialogue & description. 06:20:32 Couple comes home after going to dinner, arguing. Same couple set in 1700s, boy imagines; then re-imagines while following the dialogue. 06:21:55 Stage & curtain raises on room in old fashioned house & couple enters, reciting same dialogue, moving about on stage gesturing elaborately. Arguing. Farce. 06:24:11 Boy w/ book thinking; remembering; picks up book & acts out what hes been reading. Room furniture dissolves to old & he’s suddenly on stage set. Gesturing. Back to costumed couple. The End. Instructional Films; Educational Films; Imagination; Theater; Theatricalality;