Play-making
Subtitle: a manual of craftsmanship
By: by William Archer
Publisher: Small, Maynard
Published: 1923
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
Copyright date: 1912
Subjects: Drama; Technique
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-412) and index.

Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: Introductory; title: The choice of a theme; title: Dramatic and undramatic; title: The routine of composition; title: Dramatis personae; title: The point of attack: Shakespeare and Ibsen; title: Exposition: its end and its means; title: The first act; title: "Curiosity" and "interest"; title: Foreshadowing, not forestalling; title: Tension and its suspension; title: Preparation: the finger-post; title: The obligatory scene; title: The peripety; title: Probability, chance, and coincidence; title: Logic; title: Keeping a secret; title: Climax and anticlimax; title: Conversion; title: Blind-alley themes; title: and others; title: The full close; title: Character and psychology; title: Dialogue and details.