Dramatization: Selections from English Classics Adapted in Dramatic Form. Third Year"It is the aim of this volume to give practical suggestions for the dramatization of high school classics."--Pref. |
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... dear Heart , I will remember it as long as I live , they rise and go over to Dr. Manette and Mr. Lorry , who are still absorbed in their game of chess . Lucy places her hand on her father's shoulder and playfully rebukes the two men for ...
... dear Heart , I will remember it as long as I live , they rise and go over to Dr. Manette and Mr. Lorry , who are still absorbed in their game of chess . Lucy places her hand on her father's shoulder and playfully rebukes the two men for ...
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... dear , Thy servant I'll be for aye ; I'll swear to thee my faith , pardee , Forever and a day . Robin extends a book toward Allin , who kneels before him , kisses the book , and then rises . ROBIN . How many miles is it to thy true love ...
... dear , Thy servant I'll be for aye ; I'll swear to thee my faith , pardee , Forever and a day . Robin extends a book toward Allin , who kneels before him , kisses the book , and then rises . ROBIN . How many miles is it to thy true love ...
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... dear . Immediately his Robin blows his horn three times . men come rushing in , Allin leading , carrying Robin's long bow . He delivers it to Robin , then shakes his fist at the Knight , steps up to the Bride and takes her hand . She ...
... dear . Immediately his Robin blows his horn three times . men come rushing in , Allin leading , carrying Robin's long bow . He delivers it to Robin , then shakes his fist at the Knight , steps up to the Bride and takes her hand . She ...
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... dear , and while ye taste food , we will summon hither our maids to crown our feast with dancing . He commands Eteoneus by a gesture to do his bidding , then sits down near his guests , who have in the meantime seated themselves at the ...
... dear , and while ye taste food , we will summon hither our maids to crown our feast with dancing . He commands Eteoneus by a gesture to do his bidding , then sits down near his guests , who have in the meantime seated themselves at the ...
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... Dear child ! son of long - tried Odysseus , I knew thou wert of the line of heaven - descended sceptred kings . The son of brave Odysseus is welcome to our home . Telemachus rises , and crosses with Menelaus to the right of the stage ...
... Dear child ! son of long - tried Odysseus , I knew thou wert of the line of heaven - descended sceptred kings . The son of brave Odysseus is welcome to our home . Telemachus rises , and crosses with Menelaus to the right of the stage ...
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Achaeans Achilles Agamemnon Alan Allin arms BARSAD Beatrix brother Calchas CALYPSO CASTLEWOOD chap Characters child Chingachgook Chryses COMUS costumes CRUNCHER curtain rises dance David dear DEFARGE Delaware dialogue Doctor door DOWLAS dramatic drink DUPIN Eppie Esmond Eteoneus eyes father Feathertop Gareth GODFREY goes GURTH hand hath HAWKEYE head heart HERMIT Heyward high school host Jacques King Knight Lancelot Landlord Laughing Lavaine Lenape lines Little John look LORD LYNETTE Magua maid Master Marner MENDER OF ROADS MENELAUS merry MISS PROSS Mohicans MOTHER RIGBY never Odysseus PEISISTRATUS pipe PREFECT Priam Primrose Reading Robin Hood Rustum SCARECROW scene seat SILAS Silas Marner SILVER sing SIR PERCIVALE sits Sohrab song speak Squire stage stands stanzas story stranger tableau Tamenund Telemachus tell thee there's thine thou art thou hast turns Uncas YOUNG JERRY Zeus
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Page 81 - Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along.
Page 10 - The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Page 13 - TURN, gentle Hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. " For here forlorn and lost I tread, With fainting steps and slow; Where wilds, immeasurably spread, Seem lengthening as I go." " Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom. " Here to the houseless child of want My door is open still; And though my portion is but scant, I give it with good will. "Then...
Page 91 - And, as the old swain said, she can unlock The clasping charm, and thaw the numbing spell If she be right invoked in warbled song ; For maidenhood she loves, and will be swift To aid a virgin, such as was herself, In hard-besetting need. This will I try, And add the power of some adjuring verse. Song. Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting 860 Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave...
Page 49 - So through the night rode Paul Revere ; And so through the night went his cry of alarm • To every Middlesex village and farm, — A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo for evermore!
Page 90 - That must be utter'd to unfold the sage And serious doctrine of virginity; And thou art worthy that thou shouldst not know More happiness than this thy present lot. Enjoy your dear wit, and gay rhetoric, That...
Page 10 - Shaped by himself with newly-learned art; A wedding or a festival, A mourning or a funeral; And this hath now his heart, And unto this he frames his song: Then will he fit his tongue To dialogues of business, love, or strife; But it will not be long Ere this be thrown aside, And with new joy and pride The little actor cons another part ; Filling from time to time his
Page 95 - But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon.
Page 85 - Get up, get up for shame ; the blooming morn Upon her wings presents the god unshorn : See how Aurora throws her fair Fresh-quilted colours through the air : Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see The dew bespangling herb and tree...
Page 21 - Of court, and been estatlich of manere, And to ben holden digne of reverence. But, for to speken of hir conscience, She was so charitable and so pitous, She wolde wepe, if that she sawe a mous Caught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde.