Contents

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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