Disciplina: Inglês 0 Curtidas

Considering the statements about stage directions, choose the correct

SKINNER: (glancing round.) Baxter the detective! The deuce! (Goes to him.) Anything fresh in the paper? BAXTER: Blue Ribbon pulled it off to-day.
SKINNER: Ah, I don’t bet. BAXTER: They’ve caught the man who committed the jewel robbery at Lady Fairford’s. (Giving him paper and indicating paragraph.)
It may interest you, it seems he was quite a swell as well dressed as you are! SKINNER: Was he? The check of these fellows!
BAXTER: You’re right – they are checky! (Looks straight at SKINNER for some moments.) (SKINNER’S face remains perfectly impassive.)
In the quote taken from the play The Silver King, it can be seen many stage directions, written between parenthesis. Concerning this element of the dramatic text, analyse the following statements.
I. Stage directions are part of the dramatic text to contribute with the lines spoken by the actors. All the movements and expressions proposed on it complement what is spoken.
II. Stage directions are important only when there is an object in scene, the expressions and the movements must be inferred by what the characters say.
III. Stage directions are important for the closet dramas and for the readers who decide to read a drama in general, because they help the reader to have an idea of the action as if it was been watched on a stage.

Considering the statements about stage directions, choose the correct alternative.
Alternativas:

a) Only statements I and II are true.
b) Only statements I and III are true.
c) Only statements II and III are true.
d) Only statement I is true.
e) I, II, III and IV are true.

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