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Art Of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives

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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
EAN: 9789562915861
ISBN: 9562915867
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Manufacturer: bnpublishing.com
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 140
Publication Date: October 18, 2007
Publisher: bnpublishing.com
Sales Rank: 16915
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Learn the basic techniques every successful playwright knows


Among 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. 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. 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. 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.

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.



Amazon.com:
For many years, Lajos Egri's highly opinionated but very enjoyable The Art of Dramatic Writing has been a well-guarded secret of playwrights, scriptwriters, and writers for television. Unlike many other books on playwrighting (several of which Egri criticizes during the course of this one), the author's systematic breakdown of the essentials for creating successful realistic plays and screenplays effectively demystifies the process of creative writing. Egri, who formulated his thoughts about "a well-made play" during its heyday (the 1940s and '50s), places a premium on an exhaustive analysis of characters and discussion of their psychological motivations. The writer is exhorted to find a premise to explore and to discover which characters will most effectively demonstrate this thesis, then is shown how most effectively to place them into conflict with each other. Conflict itself is also discussed, particularly how to create scenarios in which the crisis develops at a pace that feels unforced and natural. While Egri's view of the well-made play has little space for either the spare musings of Beckett and Pinter or the conscious excesses of non-narrative and other experimental writing, it nonetheless remains an essential text for writers drawn to realistic drama, and to any writer interested in the fundamental motivations of human behavior. --John Longenbaugh



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Not a how to, but a what to...
One thing this book does not intend to do is tell you how to write. It tells you what needs to be there, so you can judge whether a play is any good or not. A lot of people seem to ignore this basic fact.

What this book does not give is a method, or any other way of writing. Lajos Egri acknowledges that if you have a method that produces all the right ingredients, that's okay. But what are those ingredients?

If you're one of those writers that:
1. is tired of discussions ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The best writing book
The book is exceptional in offering the reader, what works and what doesn't in great writing and play writing. Though written a long time ago, there is no other book like it.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Received
Got book for Stepson, he hasn't complained about it, so I guess it was good.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Excellent, Excellent, Excellent!!
This novel is the perfect place to start for beginners. Although it references mostly plays and screenwriting, the guidelines set forth by Egri can be applied to any type of writing. Be sure to take plenty of notes!


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The master piece that competes with Howard Lawsons' work
This book is a classic.

One of the things that makes this book a classic is its simplicity. The book start exploring how you as a dramatic writer can use Premise as the guiding sign through out the whole process of writing a story.

Once you have a premise you can work on creating your characters (using the premise to do that). To do this you'll have to know your character's physiology, sociology, pshychology, etc.

Once you have your characters you can work on ... Read More


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