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Art of Dramatic Writing

By Lajos Egri

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Art of Dramatic Writing

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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 behaviour - and to develop his dramatic conflict on the basis of that behaviour. 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
320
Release Date:
1972-02-15
Publication Date:
1972-02-15
Publisher:
Touchstone Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0671213326
ISBN13:
9780671213329
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
277 g
Height:
136 cm
Width:
204 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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