Author: Jonathan Dorf
Publisher: YouthPlays Press
Keywords: playwrights, teach, practical, guide
Number of Pages: 154
Published: 2005-12-12
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1599710692
ISBN-13: 9781599710693

A complete handbook for young playwrights and those who teach them, and for anyone who wants practical advice about the craft and business of playwriting.

Author: Michael Hammet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: british, playwrights, american, reade, vol, charles, paperback, volume, plays
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1986-11-28
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0521286271
ISBN-13: 9780521286275

This edition contains the three most important works of Charles Reade (1814-1884). Reade adapted the social purpose and concern for detail of the realistic novel to the stage. He was much concerned with poverty, the brutality of the prison regime of his time and the abuse of mental asylums. He assigned a specially important role to women in his plays, choosing to write for the charismatic actresses of his day. Masks and Faces (1852) is concerned with the public image and private life of a leading Covent Garden actress; The Courier of Lyons (1854) is based upon a real case of mistaken identity;

Author: Louisville&S Young Playwrights
Publisher: Dramatic Pub.
Keywords: insight
Published: 1986-12
List price: $5.00
ISBN-10: 0871295784
ISBN-13: 9780871295781

Author: James Shapiro
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: playwrights, rival
Number of Pages: 203
Published: 1991-10-15
List price: $66.50
ISBN-10: 0231075405
ISBN-13: 9780231075404

Author: Cornelius Weygandt
Publisher: Gallaher Press
Keywords: playwrights, plays, irish
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-10-29
List price: $30.45
ISBN-10: 140862608X
ISBN-13: 9781408626085

IRISH PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS - 1913 - PREFACE - THERE are SO many who have helped mewith this book that I cannot begin to thank them one by one. If I name any, however, there are four I would name together. There is my old friend, long since dead, Lawrence Kelly, of County Wexford, who first told me Irish folk-stories, adding to the wonderment of my boyhood with his tales of Finn McCool, Dean Swift, and The Red-haired Man. There is Dr. Robert Ellis Thompson, of Philadelphia, who quickened, by his enthusiasm, over L twenty golden years ago, my interest in all things Irish. There is Dr. Clarence

Author: Christopher Bigsby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: playwrights, american, contemporary
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 2000-02-13
List price: $47.00
ISBN-10: 0521668077
ISBN-13: 9780521668071

The playwrights covered in this study have among them won most of the available awards and experienced considerable success in the theater. They have not, however, found their way so easily into the academic canon. Christopher Bigsby examines, in some detail, the developing careers of some of America’s most fascinating and original dramatic talent: John Guare, Tina Howe, Tony Kushner, Emily Mann, Richard Nelson, Marsha Norman, David Rabe, Paula Vogel, Wendy Wasserstein, and Lanford Wilson. In addition to the well-known works, Bigsby discusses some of their latest plays to reach the sta

Author: Thirteen Young PlaywrightsThe Dramatic Publishing
Publisher: Dramatic Pub Co
Keywords: glimpses
Published: 1982-06-01
List price: $7.50
ISBN-10: 0871293161
ISBN-13: 9780871293169