Electronic version downloaded from http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theatre topics/. Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, Journals Publishing Division, P.O. Box 19966, Baltimore, Maryland 21211.
Argues that the construction of a performance script permits the modification of the original text in order to render that original theatrically communicative in the present. Notes that the dominant concerns of script modification are in how to negotiate audience expectations. Describes three types of textual deviation: nonverbal alteration; historicized verbal alteration; and radical verbal alteration. (PM)
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