The Playwright's Guidebook
An Insightful Primer on the Art of Dramatic Writing by Stuart Spencer
- Published: Sep 07, 2020
An accessible, contemporary guide to the art of dramatic writing During the ten years that Stuart Spencer has taught playwriting, he has struggled to find an effective playwriting handbook for his courses. Although most of the currently popular handbooks... read more
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Details of The Playwright's Guidebook
- Exact title of the book
- The Playwright's Guidebook
- Book author
- Stuart Spencer
- ISBN
- 9780571199914
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- Mar 29, 2002
- Language
- English
- Format
- PDF, FB2, EPUB, MOBI
- Pages
- 400
- File size (in PDF)
- 3600 kB
Some brief overview of book
An accessible, contemporary guide to the art of dramatic writing During the ten years that Stuart Spencer has taught playwriting, he has struggled to find an effective playwriting handbook for his courses. Although most of the currently popular handbooks have good ideas in them, they all suffer from the same problems they're poorly organized; are composed mostly of quirky, idiosyncratic advice on how specific playwrights have gone about writing their own work; and are full of abstract theorizing on the nature of art. As a result, they fail to offer any concrete information on how to construct a well-written play or any useful guidelines and exercises.
Moreover, few of these books are actually written by working playwrights. Out of frustration, Spencer wrote his own book. The result, The Playwright's Guidebook, is a clear, concise, and engaging handbook.
Spencer addresses the important principles of structure, includes insightful writing exercises that build upon one another, explores the creative process, and troubleshoots recurrent problems that playwrights actually face.
About author
Spencer's most recent play, Resident Alien, has been produced around the country and been optioned for film. He teaches playwriting at Sarah Lawrence College.
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