There is No Better Way Than To Learn From Successes. The problem is that successful playwrights are not always the best teachers. These letters in themselves are not a course of study, but rather consider these missives to serve as muses that sit on your shoulder and opine. There are no workable rules for play-writing to be found here-nor, indeed, any particular light of any kind on the subject, so the letters may be approached with a mind arranged for enjoyment. As to the talented authors of these letters, they know excellently well-every one of them-how to write a play-or did while still alive-even tho some of them see fit to deny it; but they cannot tell us how to do it for the very good reason that it cannot be told. Their charming efforts to find a way out when cornered by such an inquiry as appears to have been made to them are surely worth all their trouble and annoyance-not to speak of their highly probable exasperation. Get Your Copy Now.