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Crafty Art of Playmaking
Alan Ayckbourn
Book - $44.95
For the first time, Alan Ayckbourn shares all of his tricks of the playwright's trade. From helpful hints on writing to tips on directing, the book provides a complete primer for the newcomer and a refresher for the more experienced. Written in Ayckb ...
Play-Making : A Manual of Craftsmanship (Dodo Press)
William Archer
Paperback - $35.95
Work from the prominent Scottish literary critic regarding the art of writing plays with reference to playwrights such as Henric Ibsen and William Shakespeare among others.
Poetics
Aristotle
Paperback - $18.95
Aristotle's Poetics is one of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history. A penetrating, near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy, it demonstrates how the elements of plot, character and spectacle c ...
The Poetics
Aristotle
Paperback - $18.95
One of the most influential tracks in World Theatre, The Poetics is much mentioned but little read. It is credited as the source of the 'Aristotelian' doctrine of the Three Unities -- of Time, Place, and Action -- but in fact insists only on one of t ...
Screenwriting Updated : New (and Conventional) Ways of Writing for the Screen
Linda Aronson
Book - $30.95
Today's screenwriter must be adept at today's popular yet often complex and unconventional script forms, such as the parallel storytelling of Pulp Fiction and Magnolia, the multiple protagonist narrative of American Beauty, and the complex flashback ...
Averroes' Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics
Averroes
Hardcover - $57.95
This volume contains a translation into English of Averroes's Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics, an introduction to the translation in which the arguments of both Averroes and Aristotle are sketch out and their differences from Plato and other ...
Dramatic Technique
George Pierce Baker
Paperback - $66.95
1919. Baker was Professor of History and Technique of the Drama in Yale University. Contents: Technique in Drama: What it is. The Drama as an independent art; The Essentials of Drama: Action and Emotion; From Subject to Plot. Clearing the Way; From S ...
Dramatic Technique
George Pierce Baker
Hardcover - $89.95
1919. Baker was Professor of History and Technique of the Drama in Yale University. Contents: Technique in Drama: What it is. The Drama as an independent art; The Essentials of Drama: Action and Emotion; From Subject to Plot. Clearing the Way; From S ...
