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The Playwright's Guidebook: An Insightful Primer on the Art of Dramatic Writing Paperback - 2002 - 1st Edition

by Stuart Spencer


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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.

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  • Title The Playwright's Guidebook: An Insightful Primer on the Art of Dramatic Writing
  • Author Stuart Spencer
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 392
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, NY
  • Date 2002-03
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780571199914 / 0571199917
  • Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.27 x 5.48 x 1 in (21.01 x 13.92 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Playwriting, Drama - Technique
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001040694
  • Dewey Decimal Code 808.2

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 02/15/2002, Page 156
  • Publishers Weekly, 01/07/2002, Page 0
  • PW Notes and Reprints, 01/07/2002, Page 62

About the author

Stuart 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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