Download or read book Understanding Plays written by Milly S. Barranger and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 2004 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Plays As Texts for Performance offers seventeen plays with critical commentaries that span the range of Western writing for the theatre from the Greeks to the post-moderns. This book introduces readers to dramatic writing as "pre-texts" for theatrical performance written not only to be read, but also to be performed by actors before audiences.