Problems of the Playwright - Free Audiobook

Author(s): Clayton Hamilton

Language: English

Genre(s): Essays & Short Works Non-fiction Performing Arts

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33 Chapter(s)

1. Preface
2. Contrast in the Drama
3. Building a Play Backward
4. The Point of View
5. Surprise in the Drama
6. The Troublesome Last Act
7. Strategy and Tactics
8. Proportion in the Drama
9. Harmony in Presentation
10. High Comedy in America
11. The George M. Cohan School of Playwrights
12. Youth and Age in the Drama
13. Yvette Guilbert — Première Diseuse
14. The Loveliness of Little Things
15. The Magic of Mr. Chesterton
16. Middle Class Opinion
17. Criticism and Creation in the Drama
18. A Kiss for Cinderella
19. Dramatic Talent and Theatrical Talent
20. Stevenson on the Stage
21. The Plays of Lord Dunsany
22. The Mood of Maeterlinck
23. Euripides in New York
24. Romance and Realism in the Drama
25. Scenic Settings in America
26. The New Stagecraft
27. The Long Run in the Theatre
28. The Non-commercial Drama
29. The Public and the Theatre
30. A Democratic Insurrection in the Theatre
31. Literature and the Drama
32. A Scheme for a Stock Company
33. What Is Wrong with the American Drama?

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A third volume of essays by American critic Clayton Hamilton, published as a companion piece to The Theory of the Theatre & Studies in Stagecraft, and focusing (as one might expect) on the problems of the playwright. (Summary by Andrew Gaunce)

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