ART OF DRAMATIC WRITING by Lajos Egri ( 9780671213329 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

ART OF DRAMATIC WRITING
ITS BASIS IN THE CREATIVE INTERPRETATION OF HUMAN MOTIVES

By:

Lajos Egri

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0671213326

ISBN 13:

9780671213329

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Publisher:

SIMON & SCHUSTER

Pub. date:

15 February, 1972

Pages:

320

Description:

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 just that.

Synopsis:

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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