Play-Making - A Manual of Craftsmanship

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Play-Making, by William Archer This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship Author: William Archer Release Date: January 29, 2004 [EBook #10865] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PLAY-MAKING *** Produced by Riikka Talonpoika, Ginny Brewer and PG Distributed Proofreaders PLAY-MAKING A Manual of Craftsmanship by William Archer With a New Introduction to the Dover Edition by John Gassner Sterling Professor of Playwriting and Dramatic Literature, Yale University PREFATORY NOTE This book is, to all intents and purposes, entirely new. No considerable portion of it has already appeared, although here and there short passages and phrases from articles of bygone years are embedded--indistinguishably, I hope--in the text. I have tried, wherever it was possible, to select my examples from published plays, which the student may read for himself, and so check my observations. One reason, among others, which led me to go to Shakespeare and Ibsen for so many of my illustrations, was that they are the most generally accessible of playwrights.