the powerful arsenal of intellectual analyses, historical and expository information; allusions, references, metaphors; all of interiority, in fact. But isn’t that everything? you may ask. Why would a writer give up so much, in exchange for the unknown? Precisely because the theater is an adventure
O: As someone who loves more classical literature, all of those interior details sound like what fleshes out and makes a story great, but I also wouldn't have considered a play lacking of any important parts of storytelling. Therefore I appreciate Oate's description of how a play must instead force the writer to sacrifice devices of prose style to make way for a new style formed by a collaboration between many other artists (actors, directors, sets, etc.); in short an exciting, completely new experience with each performance.