Lajos Egri: Art of Dramatic Writing
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- Materiaali: Pokkari
- Kustantaja: Touchstone Books
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780671213329
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Lajos Egri examines a play from the inside out, starting with the heart of any drama: its characters. For it is people — their private natures and their inter-relationships — that move a story and give it life. All good dramatic writing depends upon an understanding of human motives. Why do people act as they do? What forces transform a coward into a hero, a hero into a coward? What is it that Romeo does early in Shakespeare's play that makes his later suicide seem inevitable? Why must Nora leave her husband at the end of A Doll's House? These are a few of the fascinating problems which Egri analyzes. He shows how it is essential for the author to have a basic premise — a thesis, demonstrated in terms of human behaviour — and to develop his dramatic conflict on the basis of that behaviour. Premise, character, conflict: this is Egri's ABC. His book is a direct, jargon-free approach to the problem of achieving truth in a literary creation.