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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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Touchstone
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