Writing stage plays

Neale, Derek (2009). Writing stage plays. In: Neale, Derek ed. A Creative Writing Handbook: developing dramatic technique, individual style and voice. London: A&C Black, pp. 41–92.

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Abstract

One of three chapters on writing drama for the stage including activities and readings, and sections on - script layout; dialogue voices and character; idiom, dialect and idiolect; overheard phrases; overwriting; contrast and conflict; adaptations for the stage.

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• Item ORO ID
• 18787
• Item Type
• Book Section
• ISBN
• 1-4081-0941-7, 978-1-4081-0941-0
• Keywords
• drama; stage; theatre; storytelling; adaptation; creative writing; scriptwriting; playwriting; plays; monologues; characterisation; voices; dialogue.
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > English & Creative Writing
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
• Research Group
• Contemporary Cultures of Writing
• Copyright Holders
• © The Open University, © 2009 A & C Black Publishers Ltd
• Related URLs
• • http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/english/neale...
• Depositing User
• Derek Neale