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                                  A.     Elements of Theatre 1.The Text/Script/Scenario/Plan: The text or the script: The text or the script is the basic need of theatre. Without text or script, no performance on stage can take place. The dramatist or the playwright writes text. Various characters speak the text according to the roles given to them. 2. Performance/Process: Performance takes place when the script is given to the characters of the play. The director guides the characters and helps them to take best performance out of them. The characters are also helped directly or indirectly by several other crew members like junior actors, designers, technicians, dancers, musicians, make-up men, etc. to produce best performance on the stage. 3. The Audience: The audience is also one of the most imp...

 ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Chapter One Importance of the title of the first scene or the opening scene of the first chapter. Ans. The title ‘Sherlock Holmes’ given to the first chapter of the novel is quite appropriate. After reading it, we come to know that Sherlock Holmes is going to play a pivotal (important) role in the novel. This chapter also introduces us with another character whose name is Dr. Watson, who is an assistant to Sherlock Holmes. This character has been introduced here to highlight the outstanding qualities of the main character, Sherlock Holmes. The situation is that a person, whose name they come to know in the later part of this chapter, visits their office in their absence. His stick is found in the office. Now they are   to reveal the mystery of that stick. They forward inferences according to their understanding. Dr. watson’s observations prove to be erroneous and Sherlock Holmes studies the case minutely and...

General Questions on ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ Q1. Character sketch or the role played by Sherlock Holmes in the novel ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’. Ans. Sherlock Holmes plays a very important role in this novel. He is an astute crime detective with superb qualities in him. He is the person who resolves all the tangled threads of the major plot of the novel. He solves the mystery of the curse of the hound upon the Baskervilles. This is the reason why he is considered ‘the greatest detective of all time’. We, the readers, are wonderstruck at his observations, alertness and deductions throughout the novel. In the very first chapter, he proves his supremacy over his assistant Dr. Watson. From the very beginning, he is not ready to believe in the supernatural cause of Sir Charles tragic death. Towards the end of the novel, he unravels the mystery of the hound. The incidents of the missing shoes at once clarify to him the fact that some human being behind the curtain is ...