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Stephen Jeffreys

Playwriting: Structure, Character, How and What to Write

Playwriting: Structure, Character, How and What to Write

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Stephen Jeffreys' Playwriting Masterclasses is a practical guide that deconstructs playwriting into its constituent parts, offering insights into structure, character, dialogue, scenes, and subtext. It provides playwrights, at every level of experience, with tools to apply to their own work.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 20 March 2019
Publisher: Nick Hern Books


For two decades, Stephen Jeffreys' remarkable series of workshops has attracted writers from all over the world and shaped the ideas of many of today's leading playwrights
Writers and theatre-makers. Now, with this inspiring, highly practical book, you too can learn from these acclaimed Masterclasses. Playwriting reveals the various invisible frameworks and mechanisms that are at the heart of each and every successful play. Drawing on a huge range of sources, it deconstructs playwriting into its constituent parts and offers illuminating insights into:

Structure: An in-depth exploration of the fundamental elements of drama, enabling you to choose instinctively the most effective structure for your play.

Character: Advice on how to generate and write credible characters by exploring their three essential dimensions: story, breadth, and depth.

How to Write: Techniques for writing great dialogue, dynamic scenes, and compelling subtext, including how to improve your writing by approaching it from unfamiliar directions.

What to Write: How to adopt different approaches to finding your material, how to explore the fundamental Nine Stories, and how to evaluate the potential of your ideas.

Written by a true master of the craft, this authoritative guide will provide playwrights
Writers at every level of experience with a rich array of tools to apply to their own work. This edition, edited by Maeve McKeown, includes a Foreword by April De Angelis.

Weight: 454g
Dimension: 230 x 153 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781848427907

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