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Play-Making

by William Archer

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  1. 1Prefatory Note
  2. 2Book I — Prologue — Chapter I — Introductory
  3. 3Chapter II — The Choice of a Theme
  4. 4Chapter III — Dramatic and Undramatic
  5. 5Chapter IV — The Routine of Composition
  6. 6Chapter V
  7. 7Book II — The Beginning — Chapter VI — The Point of Attack: Shakesp…
  8. 8Chapter VII — Exposition: Its End and Its Means
  9. 9Chapter VIII — The First Act
  10. 10Chapter IX — “Curiosity” and “Interest”
  11. 11Chapter X — Foreshadowing, Not Forestalling
  12. 12Book III — The Middle — Chapter XI — Tension and Its Suspension
  13. 13Chapter XII — Preparation: The Finger-Post
  14. 14Chapter XIII — The Obligatory Scene
  15. 15Chapter XIV — The Peripety
  16. 16Chapter XV — Probability, Chance, and Coincidence
  17. 17Chapter XVI — Logic
  18. 18Chapter XVII — >
  19. 19Book IV — The End — Chapter XVIII — Climax and Anticlimax
  20. 20Chapter XIX — Conversion
  21. 21Chapter XX — Blind-Alley Themes — And Others
  22. 22Chapter XXI — The Full Close
  23. 23Book V — Epilogue — Chapter XXII — Character and Psychology
  24. 24Chapter XXIII — Dialogue and Details

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