Backwards & Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays

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The best-selling script analysis book for thirty-five years

Regarded as an essential text since its publication thirty-five years ago, this guide for students and practitioners of both theater and literature complements, quite than contradicts or repeats, traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts.

Ball developed his method right through his work as literary director at the Guthrie Theater, building his guide on the crafts playwrights of each and every period and style use to make their plays stageworthy. The text is stuffed with tools for students and practitioners to use as they investigate plot, character, theme, exposition, imagery, conflict, theatricality, and the other an important parts of the superstructure of a play. Also included are guides for discovering what the playwright considers a play’ s most important elements, thus permitting interpretation based on the foundation of the play quite than its details.

The usage of Shakespeare’s Hamlet as illustration, Ball assures a familiar base for clarifying script-reading techniques in addition to exemplifying the kinds of misinterpretation readers can fall prey to by ignoring the craft of the playwright. Of immense utility to people who need to put plays on the stage (actors, directors, designers, production specialists) Backwards & Forwards is also a fine playwriting manual because the structures it describes are the primary tools of the playwright.
 

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