The playwright's guidebook

Having taught playwriting for ten years, Stuart Spencer could find no effective handbook for his courses - so he finally wrote his own.

The result, "The Playwright's Guidebook", is a concise handbook full of the kind of wisdom that comes naturally with experience.

Spencer presents a coherent way of thinking about playwriting that addresses the important principles of structure, includes insightful writing exercises that build upon one another, explores the creative process and trouble-shoots recurrent problems that playwrights actually face.