Problems of the Playwright

Clayton Hamilton
Language: English
Genres: Essays & Short WorksNon-fictionPerforming Arts
Narrators:Andrew Gaunce, Andrea Weinman, Val Meyers, czandra, J. M. Smallheer, Kerry Adams, Tad Davis, Patrick Randall, Claudia Caldi, ToddHW, Wallace Morgan, Michele Fry, VoiceofSuan, William Allan Jones
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  • 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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