Art Of Dramatic Writing : Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives Paperback / softback
by Lajos Egri
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Simon & Schuster
- Publication Date:17/05/2004
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- ISBN:9780671213329
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In Stock - More than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Simon & Schuster
- Publication Date:17/05/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780671213329