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This practical guide provides the principles of dramatic writing. Playwrights and screenwriters will discover these essential principles and acquire the tools to put them to use. Sam Smiley incorporates extensive new material in Playwriting: The Structure of Action, a revised edition of the book that dramatists in theatre and film have relied on for more than twenty-five years. No writer, director, critic, or teacher concerned with dramatic writing should be without this intelligent and inspiring guide. Sam Smiley offers insights derived from a lifetime of writing, teaching, and consulting. While preserving the best of the earlier edition of the book, he offers new discussion on contemporary playwrights (Tony Kushner and Tom Stoppard), on copyright law, on new writing approaches, and on nontraditional dramatic forms. Reaching far beyond simplistic how-to instructions, the book focuses on identifying and explaining principles essential to creating dramas: plot, character, thought, diction, melody, and spectacle. Smiley explains these classic topics and provides the modern keys for realizing each element in effective dramatic scripts.

Playwriting. --- Drama --- Play-writing --- Authorship --- Technique

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Playwriting --- -Playwriting --- Drama --- Play-writing --- Drama, Modern --- Plays --- Stage --- Technique --- Authorship --- Philosophy --- Dramaturgy --- Drama - Technique

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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

American drama --- Dramatists, American --- Drama --- Playwriting. --- Play-writing --- Authorship --- Dramaturgy --- Playwriting --- History and criticism. --- Technique. --- Technique

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The art and craft of playwriting as explored in candid conversations with some of the most important contemporary dramatists Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Lynn Nottage, A. R. Gurney, and a host of other major creative voices of the theater discuss the art of playwriting, from inspiration to production, in a volume that marks the tenth anniversary of the Yale Drama Series and the David Charles Horn Foundation Prize for emerging playwrights. Jeffrey Sweet, himself an award-winning dramatist, hosts a virtual roundtable of perspectives on how to tell stories onstage featuring extensive interviews with a gallery of gifted contemporary dramatists. In their own words, Arthur Kopit, Marsha Norman, Christopher Durang, David Hare, and many others offer insights into all aspects of the creative writing process as well as their personal views on the business, politics, and fraternity of professional theater. This essential work will give playwrights and playgoers alike a deeper and more profound appreciation of the art form they love.

Dramatists --- Playwriting. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama. --- Drama --- Play-writing --- Authorship --- Playwrights --- Authors --- Technique

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Drama --- Language and emotions. --- Playwriting --- Play-writing --- Authorship --- Emotions and language --- Emotions --- Psycholinguistics --- Dramaturgy --- Technique. --- Psychological aspects. --- Technique