New enhanced edition of The Human Nature of Playwriting by Samson Raphaelson

Nov. 26, 2015 - PRLog -- This enhanced edition includes an image gallery and a foreword by Joel Raphaelson.

Available December 2015 from online retailers
Category: Playwriting, Creative Writing
ISBN: 978-1-928150-29-9
$7.99, ePub and Kindle formats (reflowable)

Introduction Excerpt
"Let’s say the object of this course is to put every student through an experience which will make him realize what it is like to write creatively—to look at life, at your own lives probably, to see something, to feel, to study that vision and emotion, to find a meaning in the material, a form, to put it down in words, to study it again, re-seek the meaning, revise your approach, write it again and again, until it is crystallized. If you can go through such an experience, my theory is that those who can write will have learned more about writing, and those who cannot write will have caught a glimpse of what is behind a play, a story, a novel—and, incidentally, will have caught a new glimpse of their own lives."

Evocative, sage, sophisticated, and personal, Samson Raphaelson’s classic book, culled from his experience in teaching a master class on dramatic writing at the University of Illinois in 1948, is both a discussion on the craft of playwriting and of the nature of creativity. The Human Nature of Playwriting is a valuable resource for playwrights, creative writers, scholars, historians, and any reader interested in studying the creative process.

About the Author
Samson Raphaelson (1894-1983) was a renowned playwright, short story author, and screenplay writer. His works include the plays The Jazz Singer, Accent on Youth, Skylark, and Young Love as well as the screenplays for Suspicion, Heaven Can Wait, and The Shop Around the Corner.