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 most important elements, thus permitting interpretation
based on the foundation of the play rather than its details.
Using "Hamlet" as illustration, Ball assures a familiar base for
illustrating script-reading techniques as well as examples of the
kinds of misinterpretation readers can fall prey to by ignoring the
craft of the playwright. Of immense utility to those who want to
put plays on the stage (actors, directors, designers, production
specialists) "Backwards and Forwards" is also a fine playwriting
manual because the structures it describes are the primary tools of
the playwright.
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