TPO53托福阅读Passage1原文及答案解析
Questions About A Drama Class
Listen to a conversation between a student and his drama
Professor: Hi So how's your paper going?
Robert: Pretty It's a lot of work, but I’m getting into it, so I don't I’ll probably have some questions for you in the next week or
Professor: Glad to hear you’re progressing so
Robert: Um… There was something you said at the end of the lecture on Tuesday, something about there not really being any original
Professor: There’s no such thing as an original That's the direct quote from Charles
Robert: Mee… that's with two “e”s, right?
Professor: You'll probably be hearing a lot about He's becoming a pretty famous
Robert: Yeah,well, I’ve been thinking about his I mean there must be some original plays out
Professor: I’ll grant that he's overstating things But the theater does have a long tradition of Take Like most writers of his day, he borrowed plots from other sources And the ancient Greeks, all the plays they wrote were based on earlier plays, poems and
Robert: And borrowing applies to plays being written nowadays, too?
Professor: To some extent, Mee, for example, he's made a career out of remaking plays, one of which we’ll be studying It’s called Full Circle and Mee based it on an earlier play by a German
Robert: Oh Full Circle… Wasn't that based on the Caucasian Chalk Circle?
Professor: That's
Robert: I remember hearing about that play from my acting
Professor: Well, the Caucasian Chalk Circle was based on a play by yet another German playwright, someone who was fascinated by the ancient literatures of China, India and Persia, and many of his works were adapted from those literatures, including his version of the Chalk Circle which was based on an early Chinese
Robert: So this Full Circle play, by Charles Mee, the one we're going to study, it's like the third or fourth Wow… And we complain that Hollywood keeps making the same movies over and over
Professor: Well, part of what Mee’s trying to do is drive home the point that: One, theater’s always a collaborative
Robert: Well, yeah, the playwright, the director, the actors, people have to work together to produce a
Professor: Yes, of But Mee means The dramatic literature of early periods is hugely influential in shaping later dramatic
Robert: So it's like when the playwright bases a play on a previous playwright's theme or 's like they're talking to each other, Uh, just not at the same time right?
Professor: And the second point Mee's trying to make, I think, is that it's legitimate to retell an old story in a new way, in a way that’s, uh… more in line with contemporary So when playwrights reinvent or update an earlier play, it shouldn't be construed as a lack of imagination or an artistic