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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 — 3,325 ratings — published 1942
The Art and Craft of Playwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as playwriting)
avg rating 3.79 — 223 ratings — published 1996
Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as playwriting)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,904 ratings — published 1983
Playwriting For Dummies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as playwriting)
avg rating 3.75 — 61 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 4.18 — 369 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 — 1,147,483 ratings — published 2016
Playwriting: Structure, Character, How and What to Write (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as playwriting)
avg rating 4.59 — 219 ratings — published
The Elements of Playwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as playwriting)
avg rating 3.76 — 83 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 — 2,002 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 3.87 — 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)
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 4.22 — 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 — 22,099 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 — 34 ratings — published 1960
Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as playwriting)
avg rating 4.06 — 259,792 ratings — published 1598
Screenwriting 101: Mastering the Art of Story (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.14 — 228 ratings — published 2018
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.53 — 25,514 ratings — published 2021
The Bear (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,716 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 — 682 ratings — published 2010
WRITE SCREENPLAYS THAT SELL (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 3.89 — 88 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 — 9,530 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 — 1,308 ratings — published 2015
This Property is Condemned (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 3.96 — 173 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 — 357 ratings — published
Purpose: (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.46 — 13 ratings — published
Our Town (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 3.75 — 59,534 ratings — published 1938
The Crackwalker (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 3.39 — 162 ratings — published 2002
The James Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.27 — 102 ratings — published 2014
Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,526 ratings — published 2013
By Any Other Name (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as playwriting)
avg rating 4.11 — 124,342 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 4.37 — 30 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 — 14,602 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 4.73 — 59 ratings — published
Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights (ebook)
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avg rating 3.80 — 10 ratings — published
“If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that.
But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.”
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But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.”
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“Men jeg drister mig, uden Vanitet, at sige, at vore Nordiske Tilskuere, helst af Middelstand, ere langt beqvem-mere Dommere herudi, end de Parisiske: Thi hvis de første ikke have saa fiin Smag som de sidste, saa have de den dog ikke saa selsom og fordærved.”
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