The Dramatic Imagination Chapter 1

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Shermin Sultana
TH-198: The Purpose of Playing
Instructor: Dyan Burlingame
September 6, 2017
Reflection 2: “The Dramatic Imagination” Chapter 1- 4 In my opinion, “The Dramatic Imagination” by Robert Edmond Jones is a book mostly about the author’s opinions on theatre. This book is also written about sense, expression, art, imagination and set design/stage setting in the theater. As a reader this book really helped me to create an imagination of the situations in the dramas that the author presented. It also gave me a good understanding of what a theater looks like when the setting changes. Attending in theaters is another way to feel better in a positive way. In chapter one, the author discussed how an artist can be an actor.

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