Best Books for a Playwright

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List of "Best Books for a Playwright" compiled based on Amazon book reviews by experts. These books are used by students of top institutes, universities, colleges and professionals. Please feel free to suggest any other book on this topic using the comment section below.

  1. The Playwright's Guidebook: An Insightful Primer on the Art of Dramatic Writing by Stuart Spencer
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Number of pages: 400)
  2. The Playwright's Workbook by Jean-Claude van Italie
    Applause Theatre & Cinema Books (Number of pages: 144)
  3. Playwrights in Rehearsal: The Seduction of Company (Theatre Arts (Routledge Paperback)) by Susan Letzler Cole
    Routledge (Number of pages: 320)
  4. The Playwright as Thinker: A Study of Drama in Modern Times, Fourth Edition by Eric Bentley
    Univ Of Minnesota Press (Number of pages: 416)
  5. What Playwrights Talk About When They Talk About Writing by Jeffrey Sweet
    Yale University Press (Number of pages: 304)
  6. Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution by Joel Richard Paul
    Riverhead Hardcover (Number of pages: 416)
  7. Playwrights Teach Playwriting (Career Development Series) by
    Smith & Kraus (Number of pages: 161)
  8. Playwrights and Power: The Making of the Dramatists Guild by Thomas J. Walsh
    Smith & Kraus (Number of pages: 256)
  9. The 45th Annual Playwrights' Platform Festival: A Collection of New Plays by Playwrights' Platform Playwrights
    CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (Number of pages: 132)
  10. The Playwright's Purpose by Motti Lerner
    lulu.com (Number of pages: 76)

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