I want to ask the author if he has ever read Shakespeare ( Much Ado for Example) or heard a Goon show (He's fallen in the water) or read any Oscar Wilde. My point being that few of these strategies are really new- which he even notes in a reference to the Greek playwrights. Now this is a good list of the strategies and the exercises are excellent but framing it as new has merely made me grumpy as I am actively seeking work that analyses new trends.