Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Inside the Apple
Act One: Deep Structures
1. Changing Scenes
2. Shaping Acts
3. Writing Space
4. Time Codes
Act Two: Vital Signs
5. Dramatis Personae: Constructing Character
6. Powers of Speech: Language as Rhetoric
7. Dynamic Symbols: The Art of Suggestion
8. Forms of Feeling: Moving the Audience
Act Three: Professional Secrets
9. A Taxonomy of Playwrights
Coda
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