Stuart S. Spencer, '79
The Playwright's Guidebook: An Insightful Primer on the Art of Dramatic Writing. Paperback, 272 pages; Faber & Faber, March 2002; ISBN: 0-5711-9991-7.
Spencer, author of such plays as Resident Alien and The Rothko Room, writes: "A play is more wrought than written. A playwright constructs a play as a wheelwright once constructed a wheel: a general shape is laid out, and then hammered, bent, nailed, reshaped, hammered again and again, until finally a functional and artful product has emerged."
Publishers Weekly wrote that The Playwright's Guidebook "fills the gaps left open by many books, supplying organized and realistic advice for would-be playwrights."
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