Art of Dramatic Writing

<b>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. Lajos Egri's classic <i>The Art of Dramatic Writing </i> does just that with instruction that can be applied equally well to a short story novel or screenplay.</b> <p/>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 <i>Romeo and Juliet</i> to Henrik Ibsen's <i>A Doll's House </i> 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. <p/>Using Egri's ABCs of premise character and conflict <i>The Art of Dramatic Writing</i> is a direct jargon-free approach to the problem of achieving truth in writing.