Genre : a guide to writing for stage and screen /
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The building blocks of narrative
- Will verses fate: Greek tragedy and the fundamentals
- Let's see blood: Roman tragedy and Quentin Tarantino
- Revenge is sweet: Elizabethan tragedy
- Mashing it up: Desperate housewives, Jacobean tragedy and Buffy
- The plate of sardines: new Greek comedy, Menander and Frazier
- Archetype or stereotype: the comedy of Plautus, and the sketch show
- Happily ever after: Shakespeare and Sleepless in seattle
- Minding our manners: The country wife and Mean girls
- Nothing ever happens: Chekhov and the contemporary independent comedy
- Arrivals and departures: chivalric romance and the pastoral
- A final thought.