The Greek Playwright
What the First Dramatists Have To Say To Contemporary Playwrights
- Publisher
- Playwrights Canada Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2009
- Category
- Playwriting, Greece, Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780887548758
- Publish Date
- Sep 2009
- List Price
- $19.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780369103185
- Publish Date
- Sep 2009
- List Price
- $14.99
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Description
Picking up where The Blunt Playwright left off, Clem Martini returns to the subject of playwriting, turning his attention to the lessons modern playwrights can learn from the ancient Greeks. Outlining the major playwrights of the era, their major works, and the impact they had on our modern understanding of drama, Martini weaves his direct, informative, and entertaining style through centuries of dramatic evolution to show us exactly what the first dramatists have to say to contemporary playwrights.
About the author
Clem Martini is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and screenwriter with over thirty plays and nine books of fiction and non-fiction to his credit, including Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness, winner of the Calgary Book Award, and his most recent anthology of plays, Martini with a Twist. He has served on the boards of numerous writing organizations including the Alberta Playwrights Network, the Playwrights Guild of Canada, and the Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs. His texts on playwriting, The Blunt Playwright and The Greek Playwright, are used in universities and colleges across the country. He is currently a professor in the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Calgary.
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