The Playwright's Muse Contributor(s): Herrington, Joan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0815337795 ISBN-13: 9780815337799 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2002 Annotation: August Wilson penned his first play after seeing a man shot to death. Horton Foote began writing plays to create parts for himself as an actor. Edward Albee faced commercial pressures to modify his scripts-and resisted. After "Wit," Margaret Edson swore off playwriting altogether and decided to keep her day job as a kindergarten teacher, instead. "The Playwright's Muse" presents never-before-published interviews with some of the greatest names of American drama-all recent winners of the Pulitzer Prize. In these scintillating exchanges with eleven leading dramatists, we learn about their inspirations and begin to grasp how the creative process works in the mind of a writer. We learn how their first plays took shape, how it felt to read their first reviews, and what keeps them writing for theater today. Introductory essays on each playwright's life and work, written by theater artists and scholars with strong professional relationships to their subjects, provide additional insight into the writers' contributions to contemporary theater. |
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BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Drama - Literary Criticism | American - General |
Dewey: 812.540 |
LCCN: 2002072718 |
Series: Studies in Modern Drama |
Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6.46" W x 9.4" (1.41 lbs) 320 pages |
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Publisher Description: First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |