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The Art of Dramatic Writing
The Art of Dramatic Writing
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Author: Lajos Egri Publisher: Touchstone Format: Softcover # of Pages: 316 Pub. Date: 2004 ISBN-10: 0671213326 ISBN-13: 9780671213329
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About the Book:
Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives…
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. Often used as a textbook in screenwriting classes, the instruction can be applied equally well to a short story, novel, or screenplay.
Examining a play from the inside out, Lajos 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 Lajos 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.
What people say:
"The antagonist must be as strong as the protagonist. The wills of conflicting personalities must clash." — Lajos Egri
"After you have found your premise, you had better find out immediately — testing if necessary — whether the characters have the unity of opposites between them. If they do not have this strong, unbreakable bond between them, your conflict will never rise to a climax." — Lajos Egri
About the Author:
Lajos Egri (1888-1967) was born in Hungary and founded the Egri School of Writing in New York City in the 1930s. 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 industry. |
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