The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative

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The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives

Amid the hundreds of "how-to" books that have appeared in recent years, there have been very few which attempted to analyze the mysteries of play-construction. This book does that -- and its principles are so valid that they apply equally well to the short story, novel and screenplay.

Lajos Egri examines a play from the inside out, starting with the heart of any drama: its characters. For it is people -- their private natures and their inter-relationships -- that move a story and give it life. All good dramatic writing depends upon an understanding of human motives. Why do people act as they do? What forces transform a coward into a hero, a hero into a coward? What is it that Romeo does early in Shakespeare's play that makes his later suicide seem inevitable? Why must Nora leave her husband at the end of A Doll's House?

These are a few of the fascinating problems which Egri analyzes. He shows how it is essential for the author to have a basic premise -- a thesis, demonstrated in terms of human behavior -- and to develop his dramatic conflict on the basis of that behavior. Premise, character, conflict: this is Egri's ABC. His book is a direct, jargon-free approach to the problem of achieving truth in a literary creation.

Country	USA
Author	Lajos Egri
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Revised
EISBN	9781439123799
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Touchstone
Manufacturer	Touchstone
NumberOfPages	324
PublicationDate	1972-02-15
Publisher	Touchstone
ReleaseDate	1972-02-15
Studio	Touchstone

The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives

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