The Art of Dramatic Writing

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LEARN THE BASIC TECHNIQUES EVERY SUCCESSFUL PLAYWRIGHT KNOWS
4 mongthe many "how-to" plajTvritingbooks that have appeared over i * the years, there have been few that attempt to analjrze the mysteries JL Jik. of play constixicHonr Lajos Egri's classic,^7?ie ^ri 0/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. All good dramatic writing hinges on people and their relationships, which serve to move the stoiy forward and give it life, as well as an understanding of human motives—why people act the way that they do. Using examples from everything from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to Henrik Ibsen's Doíí's House, Egri shows how it is essential for the author to have a basic premise—a thesis, demonstrated in terms of human behavior—and to develop the dramatic conflict on the basis of that... Tovább

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LANGUAGE ARTS
LEARN THE BASIC TECHNIQUES EVERY SUCCESSFUL PLAYWRIGHT KNOWS
4 mongthe many "how-to" plajTvritingbooks that have appeared over i * the years, there have been few that attempt to analjrze the mysteries JL Jik. of play constixicHonr Lajos Egri's classic,^7?ie ^ri 0/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. All good dramatic writing hinges on people and their relationships, which serve to move the stoiy forward and give it life, as well as an understanding of human motives—why people act the way that they do. Using examples from everything from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to Henrik Ibsen's Doíí's House, Egri shows how it is essential for the author to have a basic premise—a thesis, demonstrated in terms of human behavior—and to develop the dramatic conflict on the basis of that behavior.
Using Egri'sABCs of premise, character, and conflict, The Art of Dramatic Writing is a direct, jargon-free approach to the problem of achieving truth in writing.
LAJOS EGRI (1888-1967) was born in Hungary and founded the Egri School of Writing in New York City in the igSos. In addition to writing books, he spent his life writing and directing plays in both the United States and Europe, as well as writing screenplays for the film industiy. Vissza