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The Blunt Playwright: An Introduction to Playwriting

The Blunt Playwright<br> by Clem Martini The Blunt Playwright: An Introduction to Playwriting
Your Price: $25.00 CDN
Author: Clem Martini
Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 202
Pub. Date: 2006
ISBN-10: 0887548946
ISBN-13: 9780887548949

About the Book:

A highly readable book, The Blunt Playwright is currently used in colleges and universities across the country.

The Blunt Playwright by Clem Martini guides introductory students of playwriting through the intricacies of playwriting in a direct, informative, and entertaining fashion. It examines dramatic structure, discusses the creative process, explores the nature of character in dramatic work, provides a number of writing exercises that are useful for generating text, and cites local and international playwrights throughout.

What people say:

"There are no rules. There exists a large body of advice regarding the writing of plays… but in the end, there are no rules — and no policing body to enforce them, even if there were." — Clem Martini, from the introduction

About the Author:

Clem Martini is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and novelist, an Associate Professor of Drama at the University of Calgary and Past President of the Playwrights Guild of Canada. He is a three time winner of the Alberta Writers Guild Drama Prize, was a nominee for the Governor General's Literary Award in Drama for A Three Martini Lunch, and the author of several novels for young adults, including the trilogy Feather and Bone: The Crow Chronicles.

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