Why Shakespeare

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826418265
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (182 download)

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Book Synopsis Why Shakespeare by : Gerald M. Pinciss

Download or read book Why Shakespeare written by Gerald M. Pinciss and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-06-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By concentrating on a dozen of his best-known plays, and analysing their structural and theatrical elements as well as their distinctive language, inventive plotting and unique characters, this book demystifies Shakespeare for theatre lovers. It enables us to step behind the curtain to learn why Shakespeare is considered the greatest dramatist.

The Playwright's Art

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Playwright's Art by : Jackson R. Bryer

Download or read book The Playwright's Art written by Jackson R. Bryer and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the evening of January 29, 1948, a new musical, 'Look, Ma, I'm Dancin'!', opened at New York's New Adelphi Theatre, marking the Broadway debut of a young playwriting team, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, who were responsible for the show's book. Forty-six years later, Lawrence and Lee are reworking their most recent play, Whisper In The Mind, for a potential New York production, but the intervening decades have seen major changes in the landscape of the American theatre. Many of these changes are discussed and debated in this collection of interviews and are exemplified in the careers of the dramatists included.

Scratch

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501134590
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Scratch by : Manjula Martin

Download or read book Scratch written by Manjula Martin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays from today’s most acclaimed authors—from Cheryl Strayed to Roxane Gay to Jennifer Weiner, Alexander Chee, Nick Hornby, and Jonathan Franzen—on the realities of making a living in the writing world. In the literary world, the debate around writing and commerce often begs us to take sides: either writers should be paid for everything they do or writers should just pay their dues and count themselves lucky to be published. You should never quit your day job, but your ultimate goal should be to quit your day job. It’s an endless, confusing, and often controversial conversation that, despite our bare-it-all culture, still remains taboo. In Scratch, Manjula Martin has gathered interviews and essays from established and rising authors to confront the age-old question: how do creative people make money? As contributors including Jonathan Franzen, Cheryl Strayed, Roxane Gay, Nick Hornby, Susan Orlean, Alexander Chee, Daniel Jose Older, Jennifer Weiner, and Yiyun Li candidly and emotionally discuss money, MFA programs, teaching fellowships, finally getting published, and what success really means to them, Scratch honestly addresses the tensions between writing and money, work and life, literature and commerce. The result is an entertaining and inspiring book that helps readers and writers understand what it’s really like to make art in a world that runs on money—and why it matters. Essential reading for aspiring and experienced writers, and for anyone interested in the future of literature, Scratch is the perfect bookshelf companion to On Writing, Never Can Say Goodbye, and MFA vs. NYC.

The Art of the Playwright

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Publisher : New York : Paragon House Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Art of the Playwright by : William Packard

Download or read book The Art of the Playwright written by William Packard and published by New York : Paragon House Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Art of the Playwright, William Packard examines the craft in a way that will illuminate theatre for both aspiring playwrights and theatre-goers. He describes the practical art of how plays are made, how to use actions and on-stage visuals, and how to approach the appropriate development of character, dialogue, motifs, plots, and conflicts. He unites theory and practice, giving fresh expression and real relevance to the most important principles of dramatic action.

The Playwright's Workbook

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Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1476844836
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (768 download)

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Book Synopsis The Playwright's Workbook by : Jean-Claude van Italie

Download or read book The Playwright's Workbook written by Jean-Claude van Italie and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). A series of 13 written workshops covering: conflict and character: the dominant image: Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller; Overheard voices: Ibsen and Shakespeare; The solo performance piece: listening for stories; Terror and vulnerability: Ionesco; The point of absurdity: creating without possessing: Pinter and Beckett; and much more.

Playwrights in Rehearsal

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415919708
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (197 download)

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Book Synopsis Playwrights in Rehearsal by : Susan Letzler Cole

Download or read book Playwrights in Rehearsal written by Susan Letzler Cole and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playwrights in Rehearsal is an inside look at the writer's role in the creative process of bringing his or her words to life on stage. Susan Letzler Cole, granted rare access to some of the major playwrights of our time, recounts her participation in rehearsal with Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner and Suzan-Lori Parks, and others.

What Playwrights Talk About When They Talk About Writing

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300228058
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis What Playwrights Talk About When They Talk About Writing by : Jeffrey Sweet

Download or read book What Playwrights Talk About When They Talk About Writing written by Jeffrey Sweet and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art and craft of playwriting as explored in candid conversations with some of the most important contemporary dramatists Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Lynn Nottage, A. R. Gurney, and a host of other major creative voices of the theater discuss the art of playwriting, from inspiration to production, in a volume that marks the tenth anniversary of the Yale Drama Series and the David Charles Horn Foundation Prize for emerging playwrights. Jeffrey Sweet, himself an award-winning dramatist, hosts a virtual roundtable of perspectives on how to tell stories onstage featuring extensive interviews with a gallery of gifted contemporary dramatists. In their own words, Arthur Kopit, Marsha Norman, Christopher Durang, David Hare, and many others offer insights into all aspects of the creative writing process as well as their personal views on the business, politics, and fraternity of professional theater. This essential work will give playwrights and playgoers alike a deeper and more profound appreciation of the art form they love.

The Playwright's Art

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Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0837157412
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (371 download)

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Book Synopsis The Playwright's Art by : Roger M. Busfield

Download or read book The Playwright's Art written by Roger M. Busfield and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1971-11-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

ART OF THEATRE 4/E

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ISBN 13 : 9781337118002
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis ART OF THEATRE 4/E by : William Missouri Downs

Download or read book ART OF THEATRE 4/E written by William Missouri Downs and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Playwright's Muse

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136542124
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Book Synopsis The Playwright's Muse by : Joan Herrington

Download or read book The Playwright's Muse written by Joan Herrington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August Wilson penned his first play after seeing a man shot to death. Horton Foote began writing plays to create parts for himself as an actor. Edward Albee faced commercial pressures to modify his scripts-and resisted. After Wit, Margaret Edson swore off playwriting altogether and decided to keep her day job as a kindergarten teacher, instead. The Playwright's Muse presents never-before-published interviews with some of the greatest names of American drama-all recent winners of the Pulitzer Prize. In these scintillating exchanges with eleven leading dramatists, we learn about their inspirations and begin to grasp how the creative process works in the mind of a writer. We learn how their first plays took shape, how it felt to read their first reviews, and what keeps them writing for theater today. Introductory essays on each playwright's life and work, written by theater artists and scholars with strong professional relationships to their subjects, provide additional insight into the writers' contributions to contemporary theater.

The Fornes Frame

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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816533865
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis The Fornes Frame by : Anne García-Romero

Download or read book The Fornes Frame written by Anne García-Romero and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A key way to view Latina plays today is through the foundational frame of playwright and teacher Maria Irene Fornes, who has trained a generation of theatre artists and transformed the field of American theatre. Fornes, author of Fefu and Her Friends and Sarita and a nine-time Obie Award winner, is known for her plays that traverse cultural, spiritual, and aesthetic borders. In The Fornes Frame: Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the Legacy of Maria Irene Fornes, Anne García-Romero considers the work of five award-winning Latina playwrights in the early twenty-first century, offering her unique perspective as a theatre studies scholar who is also a professional playwright. The playwrights in this book include Pulitzer Prize–winner Quiara Alegría Hudes; Obie Award–winner Caridad Svich; Karen Zacarías, resident playwright at Arena Stage in Washington, DC; Elaine Romero, member of the Goodman Theatre Playwrights Unit in Chicago, Illinois; and Cusi Cram, company member of the LAByrinth Theater Company in New York City. Using four key concepts—cultural multiplicity, supernatural intervention, Latina identity, and theatrical experimentation—García-Romero shows how these playwrights expand past a consideration of a single culture toward broader, simultaneous connections to diverse cultures. The playwrights also experiment with the theatrical form as they redefine what a Latina play can be. Following Fornes’s legacy, these playwrights continue to contest and complicate Latina theatre.

Why Shakespeare

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Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Why Shakespeare by : G. M. Pinciss

Download or read book Why Shakespeare written by G. M. Pinciss and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing for a small troupe of men and boys who performed on an almost bare stage, William Shakespeare dramatized an unparalleled range of stories and emotions through his wizardry with words, his uncanny understanding of the human spirit, and his genius for maximizing the talents of his actors. Working under conditions that today we would consider primitive, he made himself into the supreme playwright. Exactly how does Shakespeare achieve his effects? Why does he continue to enthrall audiences performance after performance, night after night, century after century? Can we learn the secrets of his success? By concentrating on a dozen of his best-known plays (though others receive attention, too), and analyzing their structural and theatrical elements as well as their distinctive language, inventive plotting, and unique characters this book demystifies Shakespeare for all theater lovers. With its down-to-earth and jargon-free approach, Why Shakespeare enables us to step behind the curtain to learn why Shakespeare is considered the greatest dramatist of all time.

The Art of Playwriting

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis The Art of Playwriting by : Jesse Lynch Williams

Download or read book The Art of Playwriting written by Jesse Lynch Williams and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Art of Writing for the Theatre

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350155608
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis The Art of Writing for the Theatre by : Luke Yankee

Download or read book The Art of Writing for the Theatre written by Luke Yankee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing for the theatre and about theatre requires a diverse set of skills, but whether you're studying theatre or developing your creative craft, this book covers everything you need to know. Filled with practical advice from an award-winning playwright, with a range of resources to guide you in the craft and business of theatre writing, The Art of Writing for the Theatre provides everything you need to write like a seasoned theatre professional, including: * how to analyze and break down a script, * how to write various types of plays, from short plays, plays for one person, to one act and full length dramas, * how to critique a play and a theatre production, * how to construct and craft essays, cover letters, theatrical resumes, applications, and * how to avoid common grammar and punctuation errors. This thorough introduction is supplemented with exercises and new interviews with a host of internationally acclaimed playwrights, lyricists, and critics, including Lyn Gardner, Kia Corthron, Ismail Khalidi, Marsha Norman, and David Zippel, among many others. Accompanying online resources include playwriting and script analysis worksheets and exercises, an example of a playwriting resume, and critical points to consider on playwriting, design, acting, directing and choreography.

Hamptons Bohemia

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Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811833769
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (337 download)

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Book Synopsis Hamptons Bohemia by : Helen Harrison

Download or read book Hamptons Bohemia written by Helen Harrison and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly illustrated with archival photos and reproductions of the artists' work, "Hamptons Bohemia" chronicles the evolution of a community and the colorful characters who have inhabited it, from Winslow Homer to George Plimpton. 176 full-color and halftone images.

The Playwright's Voice

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Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1559367113
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)

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Book Synopsis The Playwright's Voice by : David Savran

Download or read book The Playwright's Voice written by David Savran and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A second volume of interviews with contemporary American playwrights by David Savran.

A Bright Room Called Day

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Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN 13 : 9781559360784
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (67 download)

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Book Synopsis A Bright Room Called Day by : Tony Kushner

Download or read book A Bright Room Called Day written by Tony Kushner and published by Theatre Communications Grou. This book was released on 1994 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: