EN 518: Graduate Playwriting Workshop

Course Readings:

• EF's Visit to a Small Planet: Some Questions to Ask a Play, etc. (link prompts MUW Canvas log-in)
• Spaces of Creation (links prompt MUW Canvas log-in)
  • Intro - Chapter 3
  • Chapters 4-10
• Art of Dramatic Writing (link prompts MUW Canvas log-in)

Assigned Articles & Essays:

• "August Strindberg, Preface to 'Miss Julie'" (1893). 
• "On Theatricality," Lydia Stryk (2011)
• "The Catastrophe of Success," Tennessee Williams (originally published in the NYTimes, 1947)
• "Examine the Significance of Aristotle's Views on the Three Unities," NeoEnglish blog post, 2010. 
• Genre Tips and Critical Questions (all genres) (link prompts MUW Canvas log-in)
• Script Treatment Example (link prompts MUW Canvas log-in)
• "A Conversation with Horton Foote," Humanities Texas, 2011
• "Craft Lecture," Marsha Norman,  2005 
• Analysis of "The Skin of our Teeth," by Thorton Wilder, Ashley Gallagher, Thornton Wilder Society

Other Related Links:

• Nownovel.com - articles and blog posts on technical aspects of how to write stories
• Dramatist's Guild - The Dramatists Guild of America is the national, professional membership trade association of theatre writers including playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists.

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