Art of Dramatic Writing
Art of Dramatic Writing Learn the basic techniques every successful playwright knows Amid the hundreds of how-to books out there, there have been very few which attempted to analyze the mysteries of…
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Art of Dramatic Writing
Learn the basic techniques every successful playwright knows Amid the hundreds of how-to books out there, there have been very few which attempted to analyze the mysteries of play construction. All good dramatic writing hinges on people and their relationships, which serve to move the story forward and give it life, as well as an understanding of human motives--why people act the way that they do. Lajos Egri's classic, The Art of Dramatic Writing, does just that, with instruction that can be applied equally well to a short story, novel, or screenplay.Examining a play from the inside out, Egri starts with the heart of any drama: its characters.
Using examples from everything from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, Egri shows how it is essential for the author to have a basic premise--a thesis, demonstrated in terms