Classical works by playwrights such as Shakespeare or Euripides or even American musical song lyrics contain unconventional and unrealistic methods of communicating characters’ thoughts and feelings, and take a bit more skill and patience to understand. The reader must be mindful not to let the poetic form or archaic word usage get in the way of getting meaningful information about the story, but instead see the form itself as a ① revealing stylistic technique. Scripts with complex language or unfamiliar styles may require several additional readings in order for the nuance to become ② clear Musical theater pieces are particularly difficult to visualize when reading because of the diminished emphasis on dialogue and a ③ significant emphasis on song and dance. For example, when the music and lyrics are removed from a musical theater script, what is left is the dialogue, known as the book or libretto, and it can be very ④ thick There is an emphasis on dance, movement, or action in musical theater that can be ⑤ time-consuming when actually performed on stage, but can take very little space when typed into a play script.
* archaic: 고어(古語)체의