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The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Bnpublishing.Com
Publication date March 30, 2008
Pages 135
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9789562915861
ISBN-10 9562915867
Dimensions 0.75 by 7.25 by 9.50 in.
Weight 0.55 lbs.
Original list price $13.99
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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.

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Hardcover
Book cover for 9781436709217
 
With Gilbert Miller (other contributor) | from Kessinger Pub Co (June 13, 2008)
9781436709217 | details & prices | 294 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $45.95
Paperback
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from Bnpublishing.Com (March 30, 2008)
9789562915861 | details & prices | 135 pages | 7.25 × 9.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $13.99
About: 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.
Miscellaneous
Book cover for 9781439123799
 
from Touchstone Books (April 1, 2004)
9781439123799 | details & prices | 336 pages | List price $11.99

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