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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13:
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Playwriting Master Class
Author: Michael Wright
Publisher: Focus
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781585103423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAddresses the process of playwriting for the active playwright. Eight playwrights and their approaches to writing and revision are covered, and each case is followed by a series of activities that writers can employ in their own processes.
Playwrights for Tomorrow
Author: Arthur H. Ballet
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1452911096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Shakespeare
Author: Haydn Middleton
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780199104383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents the life of the famous English playwright and discusses some of his notable works.
Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights
Author: Stella Adler
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2013-09-10
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0679746994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStella Adler was one of the most influential acting teachers of all time, a legendary force of nature whose generations of students include Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Anthony Quinn, Diana Ross, Robert De Niro, Warren Beatty, Annette Benning, and Mark Ruffalo. This long-awaited companion to her book on the master European playwrights brings to life America’s most revered playwrights, whom she knew, loved, and worked with. Brilliantly edited by Barry Paris, Adler’s lectures on the giants of twentieth-century theater feature her indispensable insights into such classic plays as “Long Day’s Journey into Night,” “The Skin of Our Teeth,” “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “Come Back, Little Sheba,” “The Glass Menagerie,” and “Death of a Salesman,” while shedding new light on such lesser known gems as Tennessee Williams’s “The Lady of Larkspur Lotion” and Arthur Miller’s “After the Fall.” Illuminating, revelatory, inspiring—this is Stella Adler at her electrifying best.
Playwriting
Author: Stephen Jeffreys
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Published: 2020-03-10
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781559369725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis essential guide to the craft of playwriting, from the author of The Libertine, reveals the various invisible frameworks and mechanisms that are at the heart of each and every successful play.
The Playwright's Survival Guide
Author: Gary Garrison
Publisher: Heinemann Drama
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780325001654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Playwright's Survival Guide is written for both aspiring and established writers looking for an emotional, spiritual, or just plain practical connection back to what's important - the writing. It's a "how-to-be" book - with thoughts, stories of inspiration, a few tricks of the trade, a few outlets for venting frustrations, and a reassuring voice that speaks to all the doubts with an "I know. I've been there. This is what you do . . ." Gary Garrison demystifies the playwriting process, speaking honestly, poignantly, and with humor about the lessons he's learned along the way. He explores the issues playwrights face every day, including: inspiration criticism self-doubt relationships with teachers and mentors the art of self-promotion writer's block staying healthy in the art after your fingers are off the keyboard.
Sol Stein's Reference Book for Writers
Author: Sol Stein
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 2010-11-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780312550950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs a master editor, publisher, novelist, and writing instructor, Sol Stein knows what writers face when they sit down before a blank page. This invaluable guide provides quick and handy A–Z reference help for common and more complicated questions: writer's block, writing a difficult scene, preparing a manuscript for publication or submission, plotting, developing a character, and dozens of other topics, listed alphabetically in the table of contents. Stein enables writers to maintain their creative momentum by immediately returning to a manuscript in progress after finding the solution in this book. The book also includes a section on publishing, which details the publishing process and explains the terms all writers need to know. Packed with insight, anecdotes, and specific information, this guide is a must-have reference on the shelves of aspiring and published authors as well as publishing professionals.
The Elements of Playwriting
Author: Louis E. Catron
Publisher: Waveland Press
Published: 2017-12-06
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1478636882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLouis Catron imbued experienced and fledgling playwrights with inspiration, guidance, and a passport to maximizing their writing skills as well as their overall ability to transform written words into a stage production. He understood that being a playwright is more than putting pen to paper. It involves expressing a personal point of view, bringing a vision to life, developing dimensional characters, structuring a play’s action, and finding producers, directors, and actors to bring the work to life. In the second edition Norman Bert infuses the enduring merits of Catron’s original work with examples, technological developments, and trends geared to today’s readers. Bert’s play references are familiar to contemporary students, including examples from plays written since 2000. He includes useful information on web-based research and the electronic submission process. A new chapter focuses on the playwright’s responsibility to lay the groundwork for production elements like casting, design, theatre architecture as it impacts audience–performer relationships, staging modes, and the uses and expectations of stage directions. Also new to this edition are reading resources for delving deeper into topics discussed.
Playwriting from Formula to Form
Author: William Missouri Downs
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStructure is how a play logically fits together and can be archived through formula or form. To understand the complexities of structuring with form, the beginning playwright must first learn the fundamentals of formula. Covering everything in the playwriting process from the initial concept through production, PLAYWRITING: FROM FORMULA TO FORM presents a workable method for anyone interested in the craft. Exercises and techniques are presented to help students master the fundamental principles of good playwriting, giving them the freedom to be creative. Chapters on film and television writing as well as how to market a finished script and to select an agent, provide "real world" information on surviving as a writer in today's market.
