Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship:

By: Archer, William

As a typical example of a dramatic way of handling an incident, so as to make a supreme effect of what might else have been an anti-climax, one may cite the death of Othello. Shakespeare was faced by no easy problem. Desdemona was dead, Emilia dead, Iago wounded and doomed to the torture; how was Othello to die without merely satiating the audience with a glut of blood? How was his death to be made, not a foregone conclusion, a mere conventional suicide, but the culminating moment of the tragedy?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B086Y39747
• ISBN13: 9798634463070
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"