Playwriting with purpose : a guide and workbook for new playwrights /
"Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights provides a holistic approach to playwriting from an award-winning playwright and instructor. This book incorporates craft lessons by contemporary playwrights, offers active writing prompts, and provides concrete guidance for ne...
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Why are we here?
- Prologue: How this book works
- Creating compelling characters
- Writing electric dialogue and silent moments
- Environment & idea
- The "well-made play" (short & long form)
- Scene structure
- Monologue structure
- Thoughts on Aristotle's poetics
- Other structures
- Writing in 3-D for the living stage
- The limitless room
- The revision process
- Business of playwriting.