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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... HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH IN THE HIGH SCHOOLS WASHINGTON , D. c . AND CLEM IRWIN ORR INSTRUCTOR IN ENGLISH IN THE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL WASHINGTON , D. C. SCOTT , FORESMAN AND COMPANY CHICAGO NEW YORK COPYRIGHT , 1913 BY SCOTT ...
... HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH IN THE HIGH SCHOOLS WASHINGTON , D. c . AND CLEM IRWIN ORR INSTRUCTOR IN ENGLISH IN THE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL WASHINGTON , D. C. SCOTT , FORESMAN AND COMPANY CHICAGO NEW YORK COPYRIGHT , 1913 BY SCOTT ...
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... head . To this is attached raveled hemp ( clothesline furnishes the material ) cut for parted wigs , double the desired length , and sewed in the middle so as to make the part ; or cut for pompadour effects the desired length , reversed ...
... head . To this is attached raveled hemp ( clothesline furnishes the material ) cut for parted wigs , double the desired length , and sewed in the middle so as to make the part ; or cut for pompadour effects the desired length , reversed ...
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... head resting against the trunk of the yew tree . The stage is now in moonlight . The costumes still preserve the grayish tone characteristic of the visions in scene i . For the successful representation of this Idyll , a stereop- ticon ...
... head resting against the trunk of the yew tree . The stage is now in moonlight . The costumes still preserve the grayish tone characteristic of the visions in scene i . For the successful representation of this Idyll , a stereop- ticon ...
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... head resting on one hand , his whole attitude suggestive of deep grief . On one side , a little to the rear of Achilles , his two friends , Automedon and Alcimus , are lying asleep . The curtain rises on this picture . Enter the goddess ...
... head resting on one hand , his whole attitude suggestive of deep grief . On one side , a little to the rear of Achilles , his two friends , Automedon and Alcimus , are lying asleep . The curtain rises on this picture . Enter the goddess ...
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... head and supports himself on his elbow . SILVER . Who goes ? [ Jim turns to escape , strikes against one of the men , and runs into the arms of Silver ] Bring a light , Dick . [ Dick comes at once with a torch or lantern ] Jim ! So ...
... head and supports himself on his elbow . SILVER . Who goes ? [ Jim turns to escape , strikes against one of the men , and runs into the arms of Silver ] Bring a light , Dick . [ Dick comes at once with a torch or lantern ] Jim ! So ...
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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.