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Stage Directions as a Constituent Component of the Paratext of B. Shaw’s Play “Pygmalion”.

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: Paratext of a play denotes everything what surrounds the primary/main text (personages’ direct speech), preceding, following or inserting into it. Paratext can be created either by the author or the publisher. The publisher’s paratext of a play (a cover, opening information, endpapers, colophon and footnotes) form a frame for the main text, and can change its interpretation by the public. The author’s paratext of a play is stage directions, a list of dramatic personae and act numbers, a title, a dedication and an epigraph. The name of the author is also treated nowadays as a paratexual category.

Source: Zhytomyr State University Library (Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University)

Author: Л. Г. Котнюк

Language: English

Topic: Theatre and Performance Studies

Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W576767315

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