The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (931 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06X9P59BK |
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| Number of Pages | : | 119 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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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 of human behavior - and to develop the dramatic conflict on the basis of that behavior. Examining a play from the inside out, Egri starts with the heart of any drama: its characters. Learn the basic techniques every successful playwright knowsAmong the many "how-to" playwriting books that have appeared over the years, there have been few that attempt to analyze the mysteries of play construction. Using Egri's ABCs of premise, character, and conflict, The Art of Dramatic Writing is a direct, jargon-free approach to the problem of achieving truth in writing.. All good dramatic writing hinges on people and their rel
Really gets to the core of what makes good fiction Amazon Customer I've read quite a few books on writing fiction and this was one of my favorites (my number one favorite being Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting). Egri does an amazing job breaking down how to make characters drive your story, and his principles are self-evident in that you'll immediately recognize them at work in all great stories that you've read and watched.Some of the key concepts he covers in this book are- How to create your story's PREMISE. SO many stories lack this and, as a result, feel empty and hollow (and you often don't know why).- How to craft your pivotal character--the charact. "One Star" according to A. Tebeau. Terrible, terrible printing. I'm returning this so I can buy another edition.. Kindle Edition Badly formatted The information in the book is worth reading, however, in the Kindle edition, there are many, many formatting errors. There are some sentences without beginnings and some without endings. There are a lot of words spelled incorrectly and paragraphs that seemingly just end in mid sentence, but actually continue in the next paragraph. Skip the Kindle and buy the print version.