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1、2.2.4(a)AnalysingOscarWilde’sTheImportanceofBeingEarnestbylevels/stagesLanguage—TextThisispartofaprintedplay-scriptandissetoutaccordingly:speakers’namesarestackedincapitalsdowntheleft-handmargin;instructionstoactorsandstagedirectionsareitalicisedinbrackets;speechesareindented.Itisonthebasisofsuc
2、htextualcues–supportedbycostume,setandlighting–thattheactorsanddirectorwouldturnthisscriptintoaparticularstageperformance(withmovement,gestures,sights,sounds)foraparticularkindoftheatreandaudience.Play-scriptsarelikethis:theyaretextsthatopenlyinvitefillingwithakindofcontext.Farmorethanafree-stan
3、dingpoemorpieceofprose,theyareakindof‘text-in-search-of-a-context’,‘scripts-to-play-around-with’.Nowadaysoneisaslikelytothinkfilmortvorradioasstage.Perhapsthefirstthingtodowithaplayscript,then,istoreaditoutloud,preferablywithmorethanoneperson:tryitoutwithtonguesandears.Itcanalso,ofcourse,bereads
4、ilentlytooneselfand‘performed’inthehead.Evenso,asawrittenscript,thereisstillalotthatthatcanbesaidaboutthelanguageofthetext,thewordsonthepage.Thisisthekindofdialogueandsituationthatiscalledinterviewand,morepointedly,interrogation:Jackisbeing‘grilled’byLadyBracknell.Theone-sidednessoftheexchangeis
5、clearfromthefactthatLadyBracknellasksthequestionsandmakesnotesandjudgments;Jackrepliesandtriestobeobliging.Theoveralltoneisformalandpolite:fulltitlesofaddress,‘MrWorthing’and‘LadyBracknell’,areemployedthroughout,sotheproprietiesofgenderandrankarestrictlymaintainedbybothspeakers.ThoughJack’sspeec
6、hisnoticeablymoreconversationalinplaces(‘Well,yes,Imustadmit,Ismoke’)aswellasmorehesitant(hencetheellipsis‘Iwas,well...Iwasfound’).Atthesametime,forallJack’sevidentdesiretosatisfyLadyBracknell’sdemands,thereisclearlyapower-struggleoratleastclashoflife-stylesandpersonalitiesgoingon.LadyBracknell,
7、setsherselfupinauthorityasinterviewerandinvitesJacktositdown(‘Youcantakeaseat,MrWorthing’);buthedeclinesandoptsnotto(‘Thankyou,LadyBracknell,Ipreferstanding’).Onthesurfacethisis‘polite’onboththeirparts;but,inreadingorperform
