Pivotal Lines in Shakespeare and Others : Finding the Heart of the Play (Paperback)

Introduction

Chapter 1: Hamlet: "Who’s there?"

Chapter 2: Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: "Where we went wrong was

getting on a boat."

Chapter 3: The Taming of the Shrew: "Kate: Where did you study all this goodly speech?

Petruchio: It is extempore, from my mother wit."

Chapter 4: Pinter, Old Times: "No, I’ll run it myself tonight."

Chapter 5: A Midsummer Night’s Dream: "And grows to something of great constancy."

Chapter 6: Shepard, True West: "So, they take off after each other straight into an endless

black prairie."

Chapter 7: The Comedy of Errors: "And here we wander in illusions." and "I’ll Entertain the

Offered Fallacy."

Chapter 8: Beckett, Waiting for Godot: "Tell him … [he hesitates] … tell him you saw me and

that … [he hesitates] … that you saw me."

Chapter 9: Brecht and Weill, The Threepenny Opera: "Reprieved"

Chapter 10: King Lear: "Do you see this? Look on her! Look, her lips."

Conclusions: A Manual for Pivotal Lines and the Audience