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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... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Wilson: Add a description of this character.
- John Osborne
- Raina
- George Bernard Shaw
- Bluntschli
- Harold Pinter
- Sam Shepard
- David Mamet
- Samuel Beckett
- Tony Kushner
- Troy
- Claudius
- Arthur Miller
- Tom Stoppard
- Shen Te
- Henrik Ibsen
- Paula Vogel
- Edward Albee
- Margaret Edson
- Cory
- Ionesco
- John Howard Lawson
- Jean Genêt
- Megan Terry
- Clifford Odets
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First Sentence edit
A writer needs something to say, an attitude about life, a point of view about existence.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Sam Smiley (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 808.2
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