Playwrights on Playwriting by Toby Cole

Playwrights on Playwriting by Toby Cole

For anyone interested in drama, Playwrights on Playwriting: From Ibsen to Ionesco offers revealing and astute insights on modern theater and the creation of plays. The book gathers the opinions and theories of the greatest names in the past 200 years of drama, among them Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, Federico Garcia Lorca, Eugene O'Neill, Bertolt Brecht, Tenessee Williams, Sean O'Casey, and Arthur Miller, to name a few. In the first part of the book, Credos and Concepts, the playwrights offer their differing philosophies on the dynamics of theatrical performance and the changes in drama since Aristotle. In the second part, Creations, the same dramatists look at specific plays of their own, commenting on their intended goals and the works' overall success. A unique and enlightening collection, Playwrights on Playwriting is an essential resource for the enthusiast of theater.

A well-chosen anthology that has special appeal for the aspiring playwright and others with an interest in the theater* Booklist *
Taking a place with books about theater is this excellent new anthology edited by Toby Cole…. With 27 writers represented, her cast certainly is all-star. * San Francisco Chronicle *
Students of the theater…will return again and again to Miss Cole's valuable compendium. * The Christian Science Monitor *

Toby Cole is the editor of Actors on Acting and Directors on Directing. She lives in Berkeley, California.

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ISBN 13	9780815411413
ISBN 10	0815411413
Title	Playwrights on Playwriting
Author	Toby Cole
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S.
Year published	2001-04-03
Number of pages	320
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