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David Ball Backwards and Forwards (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Backwards and Forwards
- Publication Name
- Backwards and Forwards : a Technical Manual for Reading Plays
- Title
- Backwards and Forwards
- Subtitle
- A Technical Manual for Reading Plays
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9780809311101
- ISBN
- 9780809311101
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Genre
- Music Dance & Theatre
- Release Date
- 07/07/1983
- Release Year
- 1983
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Weight
- 0.6 Oz
- Publication Year
- 1983
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Number of Pages
- 112 Pages
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The best-selling script analysis book for thirty-five years Considered an essential text since its publication thirty-five years ago, this guide for students and practitioners of both theater and literature complements, rather than 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, conflict, theatricality, and the other crucial 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 rather than its details. Using Shakespeare's Hamlet as illustration, Ball assures a familiar base for clarifying script-reading techniques as well as exemplifying 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 & Forwards is also a fine playwriting manual because the structures it describes are the primary tools of the playwright.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN-10
0809311100
ISBN-13
9780809311101
eBay Product ID (ePID)
827671
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Backwards and Forwards : a Technical Manual for Reading Plays
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
1983
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
112 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
0.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn1661.B34 1983
Reviews
"Ball wrote [ Backwards and Forwards ] to help people who put on plays understand how a play works... He argues that scripts represent a special kind of writing--because it is writing meant to be staged, not read-- and thus requires special reading techniques; these techniques are what he offers."-- Dramatics, "In fewer than 100 pages, this marvelously instructive book shows how to unlock the secrets of plot, character, theme, exposition, imagery, motivation, conflict, theatricality and pacing... Our editor says he learned more about dramatic structure in the few hours he spent with this 96-page book than he has in his 20-years of theater experience."-- Stage Directions "Ball wrote [ Backwards and Forwards ]to help people who put on plays understand how a play works... He argues that scripts represent a special kind of writing--because it is writing meant to be staged, not read-- and thus requires special reading techniques; these techniques are what he offers."-- Dramatics, "In fewer than 100 pages, this marvelously instructive book shows how to unlock the secrets of plot, character, theme, exposition, imagery, motivation, conflict, theatricality and pacing… Our editor says he learned more about dramatic structure in the few hours he spent with this 96-page book than he has in his 20-years of theater experience."- Stage Directions, "In fewer than 100 pages, this marvelously instructive book shows how to unlock the secrets of plot, character, theme, exposition, imagery, motivation, conflict, theatricality and pacing… Our editor says he learned more about dramatic structure in the few hours he spent with this 96-page book than he has in his 20-years of theater experience."-Stage Directions, "In fewer than 100 pages, this marvelously instructive book shows how to unlock the secrets of plot, character, theme, exposition, imagery, motivation, conflict, theatricality and pacing... Our editor says he learned more about dramatic structure in the few hours he spent with this 96-page book than he has in his 20-years of theater experience."-- Stage Directions, "Ball wrote [Backwards and Forwards]to help people who put on plays understand how a play works… He argues that scripts represent a special kind of writing-because it is writing meant to be staged, not read- and thus requires special reading techniques; these techniques are what he offers."-Dramatics, "Ball wrote [ Backwards and Forwards ]to help people who put on plays understand how a play works… He argues that scripts represent a special kind of writing-because it is writing meant to be staged, not read- and thus requires special reading techniques; these techniques are what he offers."- Dramatics, "Ball wrote [ Backwards and Forwards ]to help people who put on plays understand how a play works... He argues that scripts represent a special kind of writing--because it is writing meant to be staged, not read-- and thus requires special reading techniques; these techniques are what he offers."-- Dramatics, Ball wrote [ Backwards and Forwards ] to help people who put on plays understand how a play works… He argues that scripts represent a special kind of writing—because it is writing meant to be staged, not read— and thus requires special reading techniques; these techniques are what he offers."— Dramatics, "In fewer than one hundred pages, this marvelously instructive book shows how to unlock the secrets of plot, character, theme, exposition, imagery, motivation, conflict, theatricality and pacing....Our editor says he learned more about dramatic structure in the few hours he spent with this ninety-six-page book than he has in his twenty years of theater experience." - Stage Directions, In fewer than 100 pages, this marvelously instructive book shows how to unlock the secrets of plot, character, theme, exposition, imagery, motivation, conflict, theatricality and pacing… Our editor says he learned more about dramatic structure in the few hours he spent with this 96-page book than he has in his 20-years of theater experience."— Stage Directions
Table of Content
Contents Foreword to the 2017 Edition Foreword to the 1983 Edition Introduction Part One: Shape 7 1. What Happens That Makes Something Else Happen? 2. And What Happens Next? 3. But Do It Backwards 4. Stasis and Intrusion 5. Obstacle, Conflict 6. Ignorance Is Bliss 7. Things Theatrical Part Two: Methods 8. Exposition 9. Forwards: Hungry for Next 10. Missing Persons (Character) 11. Image 12. Theme Part Three: Tricks of the Trade 13. Background Information 14. Trusting the Playwright 15. Families 16. Generalities: Mood, Atmosphere 17. The Unique Factor 18. Changing Eras 19. Climax 20. Beginnings/Endings 21. Rereading 22. What Next?
Copyright Date
1983
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Theater / General, Theater / Playwriting, Acting & Auditioning, Teaching Methods & Materials / Arts & Humanities
Lccn
82-019333
Dewey Decimal
808.2
Dewey Edition
23
Genre
Education, Performing Arts
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