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Playwriting Books
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The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as playwriting)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,299 ratings — published 1942
The Art and Craft of Playwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as playwriting)
avg rating 3.79 — 222 ratings — published 1996
Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as playwriting)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,883 ratings — published 1983
Playwriting For Dummies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 60 ratings — published 2011
The Playwright's Guidebook: An Insightful Primer on the Art of Dramatic Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as playwriting)
avg rating 4.17 — 367 ratings — published 2002
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8)
by (shelved 5 times as playwriting)
avg rating 3.47 — 1,140,369 ratings — published 2016
Playwriting: Structure, Character, How and What to Write (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as playwriting)
avg rating 4.59 — 215 ratings — published
The Elements of Playwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as playwriting)
avg rating 3.75 — 81 ratings — published 1994
راهنمای عملی نمایشنامهنویسی (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as playwriting)
avg rating 3.69 — 75 ratings — published 2004
Playwrights Teach Playwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as playwriting)
avg rating 4.18 — 17 ratings — published 2006
Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as playwriting)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,987 ratings — published 1998
Playwriting In Process: Thinking and Working Theatrically (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as playwriting)
avg rating 4.24 — 25 ratings — published 1997
Playwriting, Brief and Brilliant (Career Development Series)
by (shelved 2 times as playwriting)
avg rating 3.93 — 98 ratings — published 2007
Breaking into Acting for Dummies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as playwriting)
avg rating 3.87 — 68 ratings — published 2002
The Dramatic Writer's Companion: Tools to Develop Characters, Cause Scenes, and Build Stories (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
by (shelved 2 times as playwriting)
avg rating 4.29 — 170 ratings — published 2009
Playwriting: A Writers' and Artists' Companion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as playwriting)
avg rating 4.07 — 15 ratings — published 2015
Theory and Technique of Playwriting, (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published
The Blunt Playwright: An Introduction to Playwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as playwriting)
avg rating 4.22 — 40 ratings — published 2007
Playwriting: Writing Producing and Selling Your Play (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as playwriting)
avg rating 3.50 — 18 ratings — published 1990
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as playwriting)
avg rating 4.01 — 21,880 ratings — published 2005
Playwrights on Playwriting: The Meaning and Making of Modern Drama from Ibsen to Ionesco (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as playwriting)
avg rating 4.03 — 33 ratings — published 1960
Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as playwriting)
avg rating 4.06 — 258,660 ratings — published 1598
The Bear (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,704 ratings — published 1888
Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom by Jennifer Haley (April 13,2009)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Three Plays: Gruesome Playground Injuries / Animals Out of Paper / Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.22 — 679 ratings — published 2010
WRITE SCREENPLAYS THAT SELL (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 3.89 — 87 ratings — published 2003
Decentered Playwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published
How I Learned to Drive (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 3.94 — 9,450 ratings — published 1997
Embodied Playwriting: Improv and Acting Exercises for Writing and Devising (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Endymion: John Lyly (The Revels Plays)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 3.37 — 177 ratings — published 1979
Every Brilliant Thing (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.56 — 1,263 ratings — published 2015
This Property is Condemned (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 3.96 — 171 ratings — published 1946
Writing, Producing and Selling Your Play (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 3.00 — 3 ratings — published
Primary Trust (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.17 — 327 ratings — published
Purpose: (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.57 — 14 ratings — published
Our Town (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 3.74 — 59,167 ratings — published 1938
The Crackwalker (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 3.39 — 162 ratings — published 2002
The James Plays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 100 ratings — published 2014
Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,483 ratings — published 2013
By Any Other Name (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.11 — 120,197 ratings — published 2024
Enneagram Made Easy: Explore the Nine Personality Types of the Enneagram to Open Your Heart, Find Joy, and Discover Your True Self (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.34 — 29 ratings — published
The Literary Enneagram: Characters from the Inside Out (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.18 — 51 ratings — published 2001
Incendies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.40 — 14,228 ratings — published 2003
The Little Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 3.56 — 18 ratings — published 1996
Reading Hebron (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.12 — 8 ratings — published 1997
The Art of Writing for the Theatre: An Introduction to Script Analysis, Criticism, and Playwriting (Introductions to Theatre)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published
A Story that Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.74 — 58 ratings — published
Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 3.80 — 10 ratings — published
The 90-Day Play: The Process and Principles of Playwriting (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.89 — 18 ratings — published
SHORTS AND BRIEFS, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded: A Collection of Short Plays and Brief Principles of Playwriting (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 2014
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