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"During the more than ten years that Stuart Spencer has taught playwriting, he has struggled to find an effective handbook for his courses. Although most of the currently popular guides contain useful ideas, they all suffer from the same problems: poor organization; quirky, idiosyncratic advice; and abstract theorizing on the nature of art. As a result, they fail to offer any concrete information or useful guidelines on how to construct a well-written play.
Moreover, few of these books are actually written by working playwrights. Out of frustration, Spencer wrote his own. The result, The Playwright's Guidebook, is a concise and engaging handbook full of the kind of wisdom that comes naturally with experience.
Spencer presents a coherent way of thinking about playwriting that addresses the important principles of structure, includes insightful writing exercises that build upon one another, explores the creative process, and trouble-shoots recurrent problems that playwrights actually face."--BOOK JACKET.
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Drama, Playwriting, Technique, Drama, technique, Drama--technique, Pn1661 .s68 2002, 808.2Showing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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The playwright's guidebook
2002, Faber and Faber, Inc.
in English
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0571199917 9780571199914
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