Sign-In
Cart
Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for Playwrights
Hardcover
Writing InstructionGeneral DramaPlaywriting
Currently unavailable to order
Please enter your email and a message will be sent to you when this product becomes available on our website.
ISBN13: 9781032825960
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 16 2025
Pages: 256
Language: English
Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for Playwrights, Second Edition provides a revised and greatly expanded holistic approach to playwriting from an award-winning playwright and professor.
This book incorporates craft lessons, scenes for study, and concrete guidance in both the art and business of playwriting. The author takes readers through the entire creative process, from creating characters and writing dialogue to revising and producing your play. Each chapter includes incisive craft lessons, provocative writing prompts, examples from plays, tips from working artists, reading recommendations, and more. Thoroughly revised, new features to this edition include:
- Vastly expanded sections on structure, world building, business of playwriting, writing for television and film, and more
- New writing exercises and pro tips from working playwrights in each chapter
- An exploration of art and craft through a new selection of international plays
- Shorter chapters with more subject headings to make it easier to find the exact craft lesson or writing prompt you want when you want it
Playwriting with Purpose gives writers and students the tools to succeed in today's theater industry.
Also from
Goldfinger, Jacqueline
Writing Adaptations and Translations for the Stage: A Guide and Workbook for New and Experienced Writers
Goldfinger, Jacqueline
Horsley, Allison
Paperback
Writing Adaptations and Translations for the Stage: A Guide and Workbook for New and Experienced Writers
Horsley, Allison
Goldfinger, Jacqueline
Hardcover
Also in
Playwriting
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera: A Behind-The-Mask Look at the Global Phenomenon
Slavin, Nicola
Maher-Smith, Kat
Hardcover
Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives
Egri, Lajos
Paperback
Our Town and the Cosmic One-Acts: The Long Christmas Dinner, the Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, and Pullman Car Hiawatha
Wilder, Thornton
Paperback
Solo: The Everything Guide to Writing, Performing, and Producing Your One-Person Show
Malinowski, Arlene
Ganey, Julie
Paperback
The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Miller, Arthur
Paperback
The Story Book: Plot, Character, Setting, Genre, Narrative, & Devices: The Ultimate Writer's Toolkit
Jones, Amy
Hardcover
The Playwright's Guidebook: An Insightful Primer on the Art of Dramatic Writing
Spencer, Stuart
Paperback
Latin American Plays in Translation: Modern Stories of Gender, Class and Society in Latin America
Blanco, Mariano Tenconi
Eddowes-Vargas, Sebastián
Villanova, Xavier
Paperback
Four Plays: Come Back Little Sheba; Picnic; Bus Stop; The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Inge, William
Paperback
Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created Sunday in the Park with George
Lapine, James
Paperback
Three Days of Rain and Other Plays: Three Days of Rain; The American Plan; The Author's Voice; Hurrah at Last
Greenberg, Richard
Paperback
We are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Yea
Sibblies Drury, Jackie
Paperback
Voices of Women from Afghanistan: Five Plays and the Stories That Inspired Them
Arbabzadah, Nushin
Bhattacharyya, Sonali
Hashemi, Monirah
Paperback
Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond
Eng, Alvin
Paperback
Three Plays: The Indolent Boys, Children of the Sun, and the Moon in Two Windows Volume 4
Momaday, N. Scott
Paperback
Peter Quilter Plays 1: End of the Rainbow; Glorious!; Moviestar; Marilyn & Me
Quilter, Peter
Paperback
Moment Work: Tectonic Theater Project's Process of Devising Theater
Pitts McAdams, Barbara
Kaufman, Moises
Paperback
Actor with a Badge: Attempting Life as a Theatrician on the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Demenkoff, Tommy
Paperback
Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers: How Early Modern Playwrights Shaped the World's Greatest Writer
Freebury-Jones, Darren
Hardcover
Simon Stephens International Plays: A Dark, Dark, Dark, Dark Blue; Maria; Fortune; Three Ghosts
Stephens, Simon
Paperback
Performance and Real Relationships: Family, Kinship and Love in Contemporary Theatre
Rippel, Ildikó
Hardcover
Grab and Grace or It's the Second Step - Companion and Sequel to The House by the Stable
Williams, Charles
Paperback
Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers: How Early Modern Playwrights Shaped the World's Greatest Writer
Freebury-Jones, Darren
Paperback
Latin American Plays in Translation: Modern Stories of Gender, Class and Society in Latin America
Blanco, Mariano Tenconi
Eddowes-Vargas, Sebastián
Villanova, Xavier
Hardcover
Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival 2025: The Short Plays
Simken, Reese
Stilson, Kenneth L.
Lavoie, Kitt
Paperback
The Art Of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis In The Creative Interpretation Of Human Motives
Egri, Lajos
Hardcover
The AIDS Plays Project: Queer Plays from Trailblazing Writers Lost to HIV/AIDS
Ludlam, Charles
Kirkwood, James
Kondoleon, Harry
Hardcover