Genre : a guide to writing for stage and screen /
by Andrew Tidmarsh.
- 1st ed
- pages cm
Introduction -- The building blocks of narrative -- Will verses fate: Greek tragedy and the fundamentals -- Let's see blood: Roman tragedy and Quentin Tarantino -- Revenge is sweet: Elizabethan tragedy -- Mashing it up: Desperate housewives, Jacobean tragedy and Buffy -- The plate of sardines: new Greek comedy, Menander and Frazier -- Archetype or stereotype: the comedy of Plautus, and the sketch show -- Happily ever after: Shakespeare and Sleepless in seattle -- Minding our manners: The country wife and Mean girls -- Nothing ever happens: Chekhov and the contemporary independent comedy -- Arrivals and departures: chivalric romance and the pastoral -- A final thought.