Faber The Playwright's Guidebook

Having taught playwriting for ten years, Stuart Spencer could find no effective handbook for his courses - so finally he wrote his own. The result, The Playwright's Guidebook, is a concise and engaging handbook full of the kind of wisdom that comes naturally with experience. Spencer presents a coherent way of thinking about playwriting that addresses the important principles of structure, includes insightful writing exercises that build upon one another, explores the creative process and trouble-shoots recurrent problems that playwrights actually face.