Word: craftsmanship
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Chapman directed the play for its events, and never let the unfolding of his characters obscure or delay the story itself. His craftsmanship in designing the luminescent dumb show in which two characters are done away with illustrates this concern for action as such...
...play. Other Ibsen shockers also qualify as placid truisms today: that a pastor can be a sanctimonious fraud; that mothers sometimes love their sons not wisely but too well; that in Paris, artists and models sometimes live together unwed. What is far from dated is Ibsen's meticulous craftsmanship, his gift for probing character in depth, his passion for a morality that is more than a residue of conventions. The unexamined life, as Ibsen saw it, was an immoral life...
David Berman's rather bulky portfolio of verse represents no appreciable growth in technique or feeling over his last published collection. Verbal pretension and technical sloppiness clutter passage after passage. Berman's poetry has the appearance of craftsmanship, but the shimmer of alliteration and assonance disguises a formless ooze of lush words...
...prevented by law from talking about his work. He has said, truthfully but with ill-seeming defensiveness: "The obstinate habit I have formed of refusing to adopt a synthetic period style, or join any literary racket, has given my poems what would be called a 'handmade, individual craftsmanship quality.' " This is the sneer of a writer who feels that he has received less than his due, and the same poorly disguised pain is visible in his dedication of Collected Poems, To Calliope...
Although written in only six days, Night You Are is a marvel of structural craftsmanship over and above its meaty and profound content. Time and again Pirandello leads his plot into seemingly impossible situations, only to wriggle out of them with twists of genius. And She play builds to one of the neatest and densest climaxes in all drama...