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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 4.19 — 3,408 ratings — published 1942
The Playwright's Guidebook: An Insightful Primer on the Art of Dramatic Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as playwriting)
avg rating 4.18 — 381 ratings — published 2002
The Art and Craft of Playwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as playwriting)
avg rating 3.80 — 222 ratings — published 1996
Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as playwriting)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,970 ratings — published 1983
Playwriting For Dummies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as playwriting)
avg rating 3.75 — 61 ratings — published 2011
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8)
by (shelved 5 times as playwriting)
avg rating 3.47 — 1,174,635 ratings — published 2016
Playwriting: Structure, Character, How and What to Write (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as playwriting)
avg rating 4.58 — 232 ratings — published
The Elements of Playwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as playwriting)
avg rating 3.77 — 82 ratings — published 1994
راهنمای عملی نمایشنامهنویسی (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as playwriting)
avg rating 3.71 — 77 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 3.83 — 2,032 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 3.92 — 100 ratings — published 2007
Breaking into Acting for Dummies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as playwriting)
avg rating 3.86 — 70 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 4.30 — 168 ratings — published 2009
Playwriting: A Writers' and Artists' Companion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as playwriting)
avg rating 4.12 — 16 ratings — published 2015
Theory and Technique of Playwriting, (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as playwriting)
avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published
The Blunt Playwright: An Introduction to Playwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as playwriting)
avg rating 4.20 — 41 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 — 22,947 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 — 35 ratings — published 1960
Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as playwriting)
avg rating 4.06 — 263,839 ratings — published 1598
Into the Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 3.98 — 130,322 ratings — published 2026
The Nuts and Bolts of Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.50 — 6 ratings — published 1989
Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.12 — 153 ratings — published 1972
Theatre Criticism (Theatre Concepts)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.25 — 12 ratings — published 1992
Waterhouse on Newspaper Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 3.86 — 56 ratings — published 1989
Screenwriting 101: Mastering the Art of Story (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.14 — 241 ratings — published 2018
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.53 — 27,632 ratings — published 2021
The Bear (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,806 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 — 695 ratings — published 2010
WRITE SCREENPLAYS THAT SELL (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 3.89 — 90 ratings — published 2003
Decentered Playwriting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.75 — 4 ratings — published
How I Learned to Drive (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 3.94 — 9,730 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 3.36 — 178 ratings — published 1979
Every Brilliant Thing (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.57 — 1,536 ratings — published 2015
This Property is Condemned (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 3.97 — 179 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 — 445 ratings — published
Our Town (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 3.75 — 60,817 ratings — published 1938
The Crackwalker (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 3.38 — 163 ratings — published 2002
The James Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.28 — 104 ratings — published 2014
Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,703 ratings — published 2013
By Any Other Name (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.10 — 138,125 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 4.27 — 33 ratings — published
The Literary Enneagram: Characters from the Inside Out (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.15 — 52 ratings — published 2001
Incendies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.41 — 16,066 ratings — published 2003
“Ingen kand dømme om et Skuespill, uden den der haver udstuderet et Theatrum, og af Erfarenhed mærket, hvad Virkning en Comoedie giør paa Skue-Pladsen: Og, naar saa er, kand man ikke meget reflectere paa deres Domme, der sidde hiemme og criticere udi deres Skriver-Stuer, uden at have seet et Skuespills Forestilning; thi de samme kand ikke dømme uden om Stilen, om Moralske Sententzer, og et Stykkes Regularitet, da Erfarenhed lærer, at en Comoedie, som efter alle Academiske Regler er indretted, dog ingen Comoedie er. Thi mangt et Skuespill, som ved Læsning synes at være af ingen Betydelse, haver den fortreffeligste Virkning paa Skue-Pladsen. Et Skuespils Vægt og Gyldighed grunder sig derfor ikke paa lærde Journalisters Critiqver, men paa Tilskuernes Applausu: naar jeg siger Tilskuerne, meener jeg alleene saadanne, som have en naturlig og ufordærved Smag.”
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“How many plays have been written in France?' Candide asked the abbe.
'Five or six thousand.'
'That's a lot,' said Candide. 'How many of them are good?'
'Fifteen or sixteen,' replied the abbe.
'That's a lot,' said Martin.”
― Candide
'Five or six thousand.'
'That's a lot,' said Candide. 'How many of them are good?'
'Fifteen or sixteen,' replied the abbe.
'That's a lot,' said Martin.”
― Candide
