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Hardcover:
9781434495440, titled "The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives" | Wildside Pr, November 30, 2007, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The Art of Dramatic Writing is a concise guide to all forms of creative writing, from premise to characters to plot.
Paperback:
9781434495433, titled "The Art of Dramatic Writing" | Wildside Pr, November 30, 2007, cover price $24.95
9780671213329 | Touchstone Books, June 1, 1960, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: The author offers an approach to playwriting based on the natural law of dialectics
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.
Hardcover:
9781436709217 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 13, 2008, cover price $45.95
Paperback:
9789562915861 | Bnpublishing.Com, March 30, 2008, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: 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:
9781439123799 | Touchstone Books, April 1, 2004, cover price $11.99
Paperback:
9780806502007 | Reissue edition (Citadel Pr, April 1, 1995), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Discusses originality, emotion, characterization, improvisation, inspiration, and human nature, and tells how to develop effective stories
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