Art of Dramatic Writing

Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives

von Lajos Egri

320 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Lexika Enzyklopädien und Nachschlagewerke Nachschlagewerke
• ISBN: 9780671213329
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.02.1972
• Größe: 204 x 136 mm
• Verlag: Touchstone Books