Ervine, St. John - How to write a play (1928 1st. ed.)

Ervine, St. John - How to write a play

London, George Allen & Unwin, 1928, first edition

Black cloth, no dust jacket, paper title label on spine
5.4” x 7.9” tall
119 Pages

GOOD
Some foxing on a few first en last pages
Stamp of thee (K)oninklijke (B)ibliotheek on title page (scan 2)

St. John Ervine (1928) acknowledges the limitations of relying on analysis rather than experience in How To Write A Play. “I do not propose to tell the reader how to become a successful dramatist,” he wrote, “for, if I knew that secret, I should become one myself”

St. John Greer Ervine (28 December 1883 - 24 January 1971) was an Irish author, writer, critic and dramatist.
He was born in Belfast, Ireland but moved to London while in his teens. His first play, Mixed Marriage, was produced at the Abbey Theatre in 1911. In June 1913, he was standing beside Emily Davison at the Epsom Derby and witnessed her being fatally injured by King George V's horse.
Ervine served in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers during World War One, and suffered an injury that resulted in the amputation of one of his legs. He also wrote the plays Anthony and Anna in 1926 and The First Mrs. Fraser in 1929. His 1956 biography George Bernard Shaw was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
A contemporary production of Mixed Marriage played at the Finborough Theatre in London from 4 to 29 October 2011, to critical acclaim

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