Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 13 AIL 1202 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What a Play Text Gives You
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The idea
A printed play offers speech, speaker attributions and stage directions, and almost nothing else. No narrator describes anyone, and no one reports a character's thoughts. Everything must be inferred from what people say and from what they are told to do.
In practice
Speech, names, directions. No narrator.
Where people slip
Nobody reports a thought here.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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