Description
| Product ID: | 9780671213329 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Art Of Dramatic Writing |
| Subtitle: | Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives |
| Authors: | Author: Lajos Egri |
| Page Count: | 320 |
| Subjects: | Creative writing and creative writing guides, Creative writing & creative writing guides, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Reference works, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Reference works |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Touchstone |
| Publisher Name: | Simon & Schuster |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2004-05-17 |
