Backwards and Forwards A Technical Manual for Reading Plays

Name: Backwards and Forwards A Technical Manual for Reading Plays
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ISBN: 9780809311101

ISBN-10: 0809311100

ISBN-13: 9780809311101

Edition: 1983

Authors: David Ball, Michael Langham, Joseph Haj

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This guide to playreading for students and practitioners of both theater and literature complements, rather then contradicts or repeats, traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts. Ball developed his method during his work as Literary Director at the Guthrie Theater, building his guide on the crafts playwrights of every period and style use to make their plays stageworthy. The text is full of tools for students and practitioners to use as they investigate plot, character, theme, exposition, imagery, motivation/obstacle/conflict, theatricality, and the other crucial parts of the superstructure of a play. He includes guides for discovering what the playwright considers the play’s…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 1983
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date: 7/7/1983
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 5.37" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English

David Ball lives in Golden, Colorado with his wife and two children.