Playwriting

23 books

Writing Breakthrough: Five Efficient Writing Lessons from Conception to Completion cover
Rating 3.5
Writing Breakthrough: Five Efficient Writing Lessons from Conception to Completion 孙文琴 / 爱丽丝 Peking University Press · 2025 Starting from the basics of writing and drawing on the author's own experience as a writer and writing instructor, this book introduces techniques for…
A Complete Analysis of Animation Design and Production in Procreate Dreams cover
Rating 3.7
A Complete Analysis of Animation Design and Production in Procreate Dreams 安亚类 Peking University Press · 2025 The book is divided into six chapters. First, it introduces the operation and application of the Procreate Dreams animation software. Second, it walks…
Anno 7603: A Play in 6 Acts cover
Rating 3.5
Anno 7603: A Play in 6 Acts Wessel, Johan Herman, 1742-1785 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Educational Demonstration Drama: Basic Training · Script · Performance (Micro-Drama Series) cover
Rating 3.7
Educational Demonstration Drama: Basic Training · Script · Performance (Micro-Drama Series) 孙惠柱 / 秦子然 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026 Educational Demonstration Plays: Basic Training · Scripts · Performance (Micro-Play Series) is another textbook from the Comprehensive Arts Education …
2024 Shanghai Drama Scripts cover
Rating 3.0
2024 Shanghai Drama Scripts 上海市剧本创作中心 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026 This volume collects 11 scripts, all outstanding works performed on Shanghai's drama stages in 2024. Selected and edited by the Shanghai Script Creati…
Director's Notes and Conversations with Young Directors cover
Rating 3.8
Director's Notes and Conversations with Young Directors 焦菊隐 · 2026 This book collects the dramatist Jiao Juyin's profound reflections on dramatic creation and the art of directing. Through dialogues held in his capaci…
The Youth of an Ancient Art cover
Rating 3.8
The Youth of an Ancient Art 焦菊隐 · 2026 This book offers an in-depth exploration of dramatist Jiao Juyin's core theories on the modernization and nationalization of Chinese drama. It examine…
Gathering the Splendors of Linghai: Chen Hanxing's Collected Works on Art and Literature cover
Rating 3.2
Gathering the Splendors of Linghai: Chen Hanxing's Collected Works on Art and Literature 陈韩星 Jinan University Press · 2025 This book is an art collection by Chen Hanxing, a National First-Class playwright. It brings together poetry, prose, essays, recitation drama and stag…
Collected Stories and Plays of Lin Huiyin cover
Rating 4.0
Collected Stories and Plays of Lin Huiyin Lin Huiyin · 2024 Lin Huiyin's brief life was one of remarkable achievement, both in literature and in architecture. She took part in designing the National Emblem of t…
Basic Tutorial on Story Writing cover
Rating 3.3
Basic Tutorial on Story Writing 梁艳 Communication University of China Press · 2023 This textbook explores the basic characteristics, creative laws, and writing techniques of screenplays from the perspectives of subject selection and …
Spinning Top cover
Rating 2.9
Spinning Top 唐敏 Taihai Publishing House · 2023 This book contains three stage plays. “Soda Pop” commemorates the 14th anniversary of earthquake relief and, through the story of Chaping village resi…
The Art of Screenwriting cover
Rating 4.3
The Art of Screenwriting 拉约什·埃格里 / Chen Lei Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2023 A classic work of playwriting theory, first published in 1942, this book has exerted a profound influence on Hollywood and Broadway for eighty years a…
Drama Competition Organization and Activities Reader cover
Rating 2.2
Drama Competition Organization and Activities Reader Zhang Jiancheng Ili People's Publishing House · 2025 This series is richly illustrated and easy to read, making it highly suitable for readers and relevant organizations seeking guidance on modern family…
The Changed Valentines, and Other Plays for St. Valentine's Day cover
Rating 2.2
The Changed Valentines, and Other Plays for St. Valentine's Day Elizabeth F. Guptill Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 2 cover
Rating 4.2
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 2 Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Fifteen Lectures on Dramatic Art cover
Rating 4.0
Fifteen Lectures on Dramatic Art Dong Jian Peking University Press · 2025 This book was compiled from university drama course lecture notes, teaching the basic theories and related knowledge of dramatic art from three "dimen…
How to Write a Good Story: Character Dialogue cover
Rating 4.0
How to Write a Good Story: Character Dialogue 格洛丽亚·肯普顿 / 韩雪 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 A companion volume to the classic writing guide *How to Write a Good Story*, from a master’s writing course. With passages from Stephen King and other…
No Problem: From Lao She's Novel to Mei Feng's Film cover
Rating 3.9
No Problem: From Lao She's Novel to Mei Feng's Film 梅峰 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2018 This book is the final working screenplay of the film The Problem with Apu, adapted from Lao She's 1943 novel of the same name. It tells the story of …
The Female Shop Assistant cover
Rating 3.7
The Female Shop Assistant Lao She Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House · 2017 After the founding of New China, Lao She returned from the United States to his battered homeland and witnessed the people taking power and the earth-…
Spring Blooms and Autumn Fruits cover
Rating 3.2
Spring Blooms and Autumn Fruits Lao She · 2017 In the eyes of the People's Artist Lao She, Comrade Zhou Enlai was a revered mentor whom he admired deeply, and he took great delight in having known …