English 1022E Lecture Notes - Kenneth Branagh, Revengers Tragedy
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English notes (oct 31) the revenger"s tragedy. Ways of viewing adaptations: the dramatic texts as a set of instructi ons given by a writer to actors. Telling them what to say and do. Robs the dramatic text of its power; assumes that the text is simply a. Implicit or explicit stage directions means to an end: that is, the performance: the dramatic text as an incomplete artwork. A work with gaps that actors, designers and directors are expected to fill in. The performance of the text is neither the carrying out of a set of directions nor a filling in gaps. It is a process of transformation and adaption. The text is taken and transposed into different medium (from text to performance) The agency of adaptation resides with the adaptor, even though the adaption occurs within a set of constraints.
