How to Write a Play & Play-Making -A Manual of Craftsmanship
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PublisherMacMay
ISBN / ASINB001803VOI
ISBN-13978B001803VO8
Sales Rank1,369,640
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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How to Write a Play
The best books on writing are written by the writers themselves. This is a collection of essays on play writing from a ten different playwrights. Including, Emile Augier, Theodore de Banville, Adolphe Dennery, Alexandre Dumas Files, Edmond Gondinet, Eugene Labiche, Ernest Legouve, Edouard Pailleron, victorien Sardou, Emile Zola.
Play-Making -A Manual of Craftsmanship
by William Archer
There are no workable rules for play-writing to be found here--nor, indeed, any particular light of any kind on the subject, so the letters may be approacht with a mind arranged for enjoyment. I would be sorry indeed for the trying-to-be dramatist who flew to this volume for consolation and guidance. I'm sorry for him any way, but this additional catastrophe would accelerate my sympathy, making it fast and furious. Any one sufficiently inexperienced to consult books in order to find out how to write a play will certainly undergo a severe touch of confusion in this case, for four of the letter-writers confess quite frankly that they do not know--two of these thereupon proceeding to tell us, thus forcibly illustrating their first statement. One author exclaims, "Have instinct!"--another, "Have genius!" Where these two necessaries are to be obtained is not revealed. Equally discouraging is the Dumas declaration that "Some from birth know how to write a play and the others do not and never will." That would have killed off a lot of us--if we had seen it in time.
The best books on writing are written by the writers themselves. This is a collection of essays on play writing from a ten different playwrights. Including, Emile Augier, Theodore de Banville, Adolphe Dennery, Alexandre Dumas Files, Edmond Gondinet, Eugene Labiche, Ernest Legouve, Edouard Pailleron, victorien Sardou, Emile Zola.
Play-Making -A Manual of Craftsmanship
by William Archer
There are no workable rules for play-writing to be found here--nor, indeed, any particular light of any kind on the subject, so the letters may be approacht with a mind arranged for enjoyment. I would be sorry indeed for the trying-to-be dramatist who flew to this volume for consolation and guidance. I'm sorry for him any way, but this additional catastrophe would accelerate my sympathy, making it fast and furious. Any one sufficiently inexperienced to consult books in order to find out how to write a play will certainly undergo a severe touch of confusion in this case, for four of the letter-writers confess quite frankly that they do not know--two of these thereupon proceeding to tell us, thus forcibly illustrating their first statement. One author exclaims, "Have instinct!"--another, "Have genius!" Where these two necessaries are to be obtained is not revealed. Equally discouraging is the Dumas declaration that "Some from birth know how to write a play and the others do not and never will." That would have killed off a lot of us--if we had seen it in time.
