DRM100Y1 Lecture Notes - Tennessee Williams, Jane Wagner, Derivative Work
21 Apr 2014
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Equal to the music, actors, lighting- a more recent, modern way of thinking about a script: the dominant idea has been that the script is this thing that organizes what is going to happen on stage. Wright from oe wryhta: worker, a craftsperson, a maker of material things. With time, the script begins to take on the life of its own as a commodity. Commodity= an article, an object, a good as opposed to a service. Scripts start to become commodities, they can be bought or sold. The medieval cycle plays belong to the city, but an elizabethan playwright could sell to competing companies. Playwrights got a flat fee, unless you were a shareholder like shakespeare. It was quite unusual for a play to have 20 performances. So you might not get anything at all if your show only lasts 2 nights.
