| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 279 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
The art and craft of playwriting as explored in candid conversations with some of the most important contemporary dramatists Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Lynn Nottage, A.R. Gurney, and a host of other major creative voices of the theater discuss the art of playwriting, from inspiration to production, in a volume that marks the tenth anniversary of the Yale Drama Series and the David Charles Horn Foundation Prize for emerging playwrights. Jeffrey Sweet, himself an award-winning dramatist, hosts a virtual roundtable of perspectives on how to tell stories onstage featuring extensive interview. |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD / Winer, Linda -- INTRODUCTION -- PROLOGUE: EDWARD ALBEE -- ARTHUR KOPIT -- JULES FEIFFER -- A.R. GURNEY -- DAVID HARE -- CHRISTOPHER DURANG -- MARSHA NORMAN -- NICHOLAS WRIGHT -- DONALD MARGULIES -- JANE ANDERSON -- BRYONY LAVERY -- ROBERT SCHENKKAN -- MOIRA BUFFINI -- KWAME KWEI-ARMAH -- LYNN NOTTAGE -- RINNE GROFF -- NINA RAINE -- EPILOGUE: LANFORD WILSON -- NOTES |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Dramatists -- Interviews.
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Dramatists. |
| Genre/Form |
Interviews.
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| Subject |
Playwriting.
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Playwriting. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Interviews.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sweet, Jeffrey, 1950- What playwrights talk about when they talk about writing. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017 0300211449 (OCoLC)953885442 |
| ISBN |
9780300228052 (electronic book) |
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0300228058 (electronic book) |
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9780300211443 |
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0300211449 |
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