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

In this work, 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.Read More

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  • Foyles

    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.

  • BookDepository

    Art Of Dramatic Writing : Paperback : Simon & Schuster : 9780671213329 : 0671213326 : 17 May 2004 : 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.

  • Blackwell

    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...

  • ASDA

    In this work 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.

  • 0671213326
  • 9780671213329
  • Lajos Egri
  • 17 May 2004
  • Simon & Schuster
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 320
  • Newly Rev. Ed
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