Backwards and forwards: a technical manual for reading plays
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Main Author: Ball, David, (David A.) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press c1983
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Using Hamlet as illustration, the author provides the 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
pt. 1. Shape -- 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 -- pt. 2. Methods -- 8. Exposition -- 9. Forwards : hungry for next -- 10. Missing persons (character) -- 11. Image -- 12. Theme -- pt. 3. 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?
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 96 p.)
ISBN:0585111448
9780585111445

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