Backwards and Forwards
A Technical Manual for Reading Plays
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press
Published:7th Jul '83
Should be back in stock very soon
Considered an essential text since its publication thirty-five years ago, this guide for students and practitioners of both theatre and literature complements, rather than contradicts or repeats, traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts.
“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
ISBN: 9780809311101
Dimensions: 215mm x 137mm x 10mm
Weight: 155g
112 pages