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| | Jahn: Drama |
 | | In this sense, a play is a 'play in performance', and the play's text is mainly a guide to a performance, comparable to a blueprint, a musical score (Krieger 1995: 78), or even a recipe for baking a cake (Searle 1975: 329). |
 | | Plays could be censored for treason, heresy, and blasphemy, and sanctions included the closing of playhouses, or the cutting of offending scenes (for instance, the famous deposition scene in Richard II was omitted from the Folio edition [Lloyd Evans and Lloyd Evans 1978: 294]). |
 | | Just as the reception of a play is a collective public experience, staging a play is a collective enterprise, involving the collaboration of many people including producers, directors, choreographers, musicians, and, of course, actors. |
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