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The PG �50 Screenwriting Challenge - for a future blog entry
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1. Poetics (Penguin Classics) by Aristotle

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	"PG is a screenwriter who will sell you an ebook on screenwriting for �50 or so. This challenge is to spend �50 more productively. I suggest 6 stages:"

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2. Poetics (Dover Thrift) by Aristotle

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	"1. Get a copy of 'The Poetics', like the one above, or this one..."

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3. Aristotle's Poetics for Screenwriters: Storytelling Secrets from the Greatest Mind in Western Civilization: Storytelling Secrets from the Greatest Mind in Western Civilisation by Michael Tierno

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	"...or this, with extra screenwriteryness..."

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4. Classical Literary Criticism: Plato: Ion; Republic 2-3, 1; Aristotle: Poetics; Horace: The Art of Poetry; Longinus: On the Sublime (Penguin Classics) by none

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	"...this, with some other classical literary ideas..."

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5. The Poetics (Dramatic contexts) by Aristotle

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	"...this, with a modern theatre perspective..."

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6. The Rhetoric and Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle

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	"... or this, if you also want to think about rhetoric (and, by extension, Shakespeare) - or buy a separate copy of 'The Rhetoric', to go with an edition of 'The Poetics', above."

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7. The Oresteia (Dover Thrift Editions) by Aeschylus

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	"2. Get some tragedies to go with 'The Poetics', like this..."

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8. Theban Plays: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone (Dover Thrift Editions) by Sophocles

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	"...and this..."

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9. Three Plays: "Alcestis","Hippolytus","Iphigenia in Tauris" (Penguin Classics) by Euripides

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	"...and this... (or whatever editions you prefer)"

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10. Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth (Penguin Classics) by William Shakespeare

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	"3. Add some Shakespearean Tragedy, for comparison, to show how he expanded upon Aristotle's definitions of Tragedy."

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11. The Norton Shakespeare Tragedies by Stephen Greenblatt

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	"... or a complete version ..."

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12. Four Revenge Tragedies: (The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois, and The Atheist's Tragedy): "Spanish Tragedy", ... "Atheist's Tragedy" (Oxford World's Classics) by Katharine Eisaman Maus

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	"... optional Tragedy extra, number one..."

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13. Five Jacobean Tragedies (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by Thomas Middleton

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	"... optional Tragedy extra, number two..."

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14. The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

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	"4. PG offers to simplify this for you, I think you should save some money (and a possible misrepresentation) and stick to the original - and be sceptical of its thesis"

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15. Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting (Methuen Film) by Robert McKee

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	"5. Stages 1-4 should be good context for this book, which seems to be the template for 'screenwriters guides'..."

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16. Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting: A Step-by-Step Guide from Concept to finished Script by Syd Field

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	"...and this, which is more of the same sort of thing. I'm not convinced that PG has any insights that McKee and Field don't have. And you can get both of these books for �20 or so."

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17. Adaptation [DVD] [2003] DVD ~ Nicolas Cage|Meryl Streep

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	"6. Finally, pick and chose from some stuff that goes against McKee and Field. McKee is even a character in 'Adaption'..."

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18. The Passenger [DVD] [2006] DVD ~ Jack Nicholson

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	"...this doesn't mean you should ignore structure..."

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19. Shooting The Past (BBC) [1999] [DVD] DVD ~ Lindsay Duncan

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	"...or be deliberately avant garde..."

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20. The Singing Detective [DVD] [1986] DVD ~ Michael Gambon

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	"...or disdain clear communication... or popular culture..."

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21. The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett

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	"...or not try your best to make a living from writing..."

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22. Plays: "Lear"; the "Sea"; "Narrow Road to the Deep North"; "Black Mass"; "Passion": Vol 2 (Contemporary Dramatists) by Edward Bond

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	"...but that you should be suspicious of apparently easy, but expensive, answers..."

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23. Plays:2 The Caretaker .Night School. The Dwarfs. The Collection. The Lover. Night School . Trouble in the works. The black and white request stop. ... Dwarfs", "The Collection", "The Lover" v. 2 by Harold Pinter

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	"...always challenge your own ideas..."

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24. Absurd Drama - Amedee, Professor Taranne, The Two Executioners & The Zoo Story by Martin Esslin

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	"...and take some time to work out the stories you really want to tell, and why you want to bother..."

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25. On Theatre (Plays and Playwrights) by Bertolt Brecht

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	"...this part of the list is pretty arbitrary, but click around the other listmania lists on this page for other possibilities. If you don't want to spend �50 at all, remember your local library."

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The Rhetoric and Poetics of Aristotle

The Norton Shakespeare Tragedies

Four Revenge Tragedies: (The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois, and The Atheist's Tragedy): "Spanish Tragedy", ... "Atheist's Tragedy" (Oxford World's Classics)

Five Jacobean Tragedies (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting (Methuen Film)

Adaptation [DVD] [2003]

Absurd Drama - Amedee, Professor Taranne, The Two Executioners & The Zoo Story

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The Singing Detective [DVD] [1986] forum sub-titles	0	20 Sep 2011
Professione: reporter [DVD] [1975] forum This DVD vs. that of the U.S. version, titled The Passenger	0	18 Jul 2010
The Norton Shakespeare Tragedies forum Which plays?	0	3 Jun 2007