India and its theatre traditions have had an enormous effect on the study and practice of theatre. ... Not surprisingly, then, does a host of drama texts and traditions also come from the Indian tradition, showing it to be important indeed in all development in the study of drama. ... Play scripts emanated from epic literature, historical (or semi-historical) legends, rural life and urban dramas. ... The structure of Indian drama has also remained fairly unchanged in the Sanskrit drama genre. ... Nevertheless, all participants in the drama must work together to present an entire pictur...

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When he discovered that one of Stanislavski's actors, Richard Boleslavsky, had stayed on in New York, Strasberg began to study with him. ... The Group Theatre "specialised in grittily realistic, socially orientated drama" (Counsell 1996: 52). ...

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Soliloquies are when the characters are alone or at least they think they are and often used in drama, because there is no narrative point of view. ... Hamlets age is open to interpretation; however he is often known to be in young adulthood, since he returns from university studies to come home after his father's death. ...

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