Unboxing! 3rd Edition of my textbook "Introduction to Play Analysis"

When I left to take the dog for a walk this morning, I discovered a small, heavy box on the front porch. I hadn’t remembered ordering anything scheduled to arrive yet, but when I opened the box I found ten copies of the 3rd edition of my textbook, Introduction to Play Analysis! I’m delighted with this new edition, which really is a complete revisioning of the original. None of the analysis process is changed, but I’ve always felt as if the book would benefit from a demo of the analysis process “in action.” So we included the complete text of Susan Glaspell’s classic short play Trifles, and at the end of each chapter I applied the ideas described to the play. Thanks to some careful but ruthless editing, the new book is less than 20 pages longer than the original, so Waveland Press (a great publisher – thank you Don Rosso) was able to sell this edition with only a slight increase on the previous list price. I’m looking forward to seeing how it is received.