Genre
Subtitle: a guide to writing for stage and screen
By: Andrew Tidmarsh
Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781408185827
Subjects: Drama; Playwriting; Technique; Motion picture authorship; Motion picture plays
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The building blocks of narrative; title: Will verses fate: Greek tragedy and the fundamentals; title: Let's see blood: Roman tragedy and Quentin Tarantino; title: Revenge is sweet: Elizabethan tragedy; title: Mashing it up: Desperate housewives, Jacobean tragedy and Buffy; title: The plate of sardines: new Greek comedy, Menander and Frazier; title: Archetype or stereotype: the comedy of Plautus, and the sketch show; title: Happily ever after: Shakespeare and Sleepless in seattle; title: Minding our manners: The country wife and Mean girls; title: Nothing ever happens: Chekhov and the contemporary independent comedy; title: Arrivals and departures: chivalric romance and the pastoral; title: A final thought.