Playwriting with Purpose
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Playwriting with Purpose

A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights

Jacqueline Goldfinger

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Playwriting with Purpose

A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights

Jacqueline Goldfinger

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About This Book

Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights provides a holistic approach to playwriting from an award-winning playwright and instructor.

This book incorporates craft lessons by contemporary playwrights and provides concrete guidance for new and emerging playwrights. The author takes readers through the entire creative process, from creating characters and writing dialogue and silent moments to analyzing elements of well-made plays and creating an atmospheric environment. Each chapter is followed by writing prompts and pro tips that address unique facets of the conversation about the art and craft of playwriting. The book also includes information on the business of playwriting and a recommended reading list of published classic and contemporary plays, providing all the tools to successfully transform an idea into a script, and a script into a performance.

Playwriting with Purpose gives writers and students of playwriting hands-on lessons, artistic concepts, and business savvy to succeed in today's theater industry.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2021
ISBN
9781000425062
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Theatre Playwriting

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    Citation styles for Playwriting with Purpose

    APA 6 Citation

    Goldfinger, J. (2021). Playwriting with Purpose (1st ed.). Taylor and Francis. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/2555139/playwriting-with-purpose-pdf (Original work published 2021)

    Chicago Citation

    Goldfinger, Jacqueline. (2021) 2021. Playwriting with Purpose. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis. https://www.perlego.com/book/2555139/playwriting-with-purpose-pdf.

    Harvard Citation

    Goldfinger, J. (2021) Playwriting with Purpose. 1st edn. Taylor and Francis. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/2555139/playwriting-with-purpose-pdf (Accessed: 25 September 2021).

    MLA 7 Citation

    Goldfinger, Jacqueline. Playwriting with Purpose. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis, 2021. Web. 25 Sept. 2021.