The Archduke of Scotland told Shakespeare he should give up play-writing right before he wrote the famous tragedy Hamlet.
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The Archduke of Scotland told Shakespeare he should give up play-writing right before he wrote the famous tragedy Hamlet.
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Only by bearing the audience constantly in mind can the student learn the numerous devices which make play-writing an art quite different from any other form of narration.
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One does learn a little through the years, of course, but what one learns is the surface tricks of play-writing, never how to avoid the major errors. Perhaps the reason that one can never practice the art of play-writing with any degree of sureness or security is that each play has a peculiar and separate life of its own.
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As a playwright she has won the Nick Darke award for her script Paradise (an environmental play) and the Generation Zed play-writing competition for a script idea for the Pilot Theatre to be developed for young people (11–15 year olds).
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