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Backwards and Forwards A Technical Manual for Reading Plays

Paperback • 1983 • English

Backwards and Forwards A Technical Manual for Reading Plays

By David Ball

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About the book

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 stage...Show more

Theatre studies
Theatre management
Classic and pre-20th century plays

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ISBN

9780809311101

Publisher

SIU Press

Published year

1983

Language

English

Original title

Backwards and Forwards A Technical Manual for Reading Plays

Format

Paperback

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