New playwriting strategies: a language-based approach to playwriting

Abstract

Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Part I: The Language Playwright Chapter 1: The Playwright's Two Voices Chapter 2: Dialogic Applications and Practices Part II: The Dramaturgy of New Playwriting: From Building Blocks to Revision Chapter 3: The Poetics of New Playwriting Chapter 4: Defining, Rewriting and Refining the Script Part III: Monologic Structures: From Orthodoxy to Innovation Chapter 5: Show us, don't tell us Chapter 6: Toward Dialogic Monologue in New Playwriting Part IV: Formulating Character Chapter 7: Establishing New Approaches to Character Chapter 8: Len Jenkin's Dramaturgy of Character: Stage Figures to Archetypes Chapter 9: Eric Overmyer: Some Principles of Character Transformation Chapter 10: Mac Wellman: Language-based Character Works Cited Index