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Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship by William Archer (Paperback / softback, 2014)

Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship Drama Production Brand New Edition By William Archer With a New Introduction to the Dover Edition by John Gassner There are rules for writing a play. It is easy, indeed, to lay down negative recommendations--to instruct the beginner how t to do it. But most of these don'ts are rather obvious; and those which are t obvious are apt to be questionable. It is certain, for instance, that if you want your play to be acted, anywhere else than in China, you must t plan it in sixteen acts of an hour apiece; but where is the tyro who needs a text-book to tell him that? On the other hand, most theorists of to-day would make it an axiom that you must t let your characters narrate their circumstances, or expound their motives, in speeches addressed, either directly to the audience, or ostensibly to their solitary selves. But when we remember that, of all dramatic openings, there is ne finer than that which shows Richard Plantagenet limping down the empty stage to say-- Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried --

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