Playwriting


The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives
The Playwright's Guidebook: An Insightful Primer on the Art of Dramatic Writing
The Art and Craft of Playwriting
Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays
Playwriting For Dummies
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8)
Playwriting: Structure, Character, How and What to Write
The Elements of Playwriting
راهنمای عملی نمایشنامه‌نویسی
Playwrights Teach Playwriting
Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
Playwriting In Process: Thinking and Working Theatrically
Playwriting, Brief and Brilliant (Career Development Series)
Breaking into Acting for Dummies
The Dramatic Writer's Companion: Tools to Develop Characters, Cause Scenes, and Build Stories (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
Waiting for 2000 by Zack LoveSaving Juliet by Suzanne SelforsPride, Prejudice and Jasmin Field by Melissa NathanThe Patron Murders by Edwin  WilsonUntouchable Things by Tara Guha
Theater-Themed Novels
35 books — 35 voters
Playwriting by Stephen JeffreysPlay-Making by William ArcherAristotle by AristotleThe Crafty Art of Playmaking by Alan AyckbournThe Seven Basic Plots by Christopher Booker
Playwriting Books
33 books — 1 voter

Plastic Figurines by Ella Carmen GreenhillANTIGONE by Yves FlorennePosh by Laura WadeThis Beautiful Future by Rita KalnejaisLungs by Duncan Macmillan
Plays I've Read in 2022
8 books — 1 voter
The Empty Space by Peter BrookAngels in America by Tony KushnerWuthering Heights by Emma RiceContemporary Theatre in Egypt by Marvin A. CarlsonHedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
Contemporary Theatre Studies
45 books — 2 voters

As a youth I enjoyed — indeed, like most of my contemporaries, revered — the agitprop plays of Brecht, and his indictments of Capitalism. It later occurred to me that his plays were copyrighted, and that he, like I, was living through the operations of that same free market. His protestations were not borne out by his actions, neither could they be. Why, then, did he profess Communism? Because it sold. The public’s endorsement of his plays kept him alive; as Marx was kept alive by the fortune En ...more
David Mamet, The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture

George Bernard Shaw
Making Life means making trouble
George Bernard Shaw

More quotes...