The Playwright's Muse by Herrington, Joan

The Playwright's Muse (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780815337799)

Vendor: Joan Herrington
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
$190.00
$190.00
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The Playwright's Muse by Herrington, Joan

The Playwright's Muse

$190.00
The Playwright's Muse by Herrington, Joan

The Playwright's Muse

$190.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Joan Herrington
ISBN-10: 0815337795
ISBN-13: 9780815337799
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 07/05/2002
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.46w x 0.91d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 08/01/2002 pg. 98
Library Journal 08/12/2002
By Joan Herrington
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Joan Herrington is Director of Women's Theatre and Associate Professor of Theatre at Western Michigan University. She is author of I Ain't Sorry For Nothin' IDone: August Wilson's Process of Playwriting.

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