How Plays Work

✍ Scribed by David Edgar

Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 228
Series: Nick Hern Books
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

How Plays Work has grown out of David Edgar’s teaching in the University of Birmingham’s MA course in playwriting studies, which he founded twenty years ago. Through historical and modern examples, the book analyzes the basic elements of dramatic structure, action, plot, character, dialogue, and genre.

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