{"product_id":"the-art-of-dramatic-writing-von-lajos-egri","title":"The Art Of Dramatic Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmid the hundreds of \"how-to\" books that have appeared in recent years, there have been very few which attempted to analyze the mysteries of play-construction. This book does that - and its principles are so valid that they apply equally well to the short story, novel and screenplay. 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 tranform 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 behavior - and to develop his dramatic conflict on the basis of that behavior. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781607961307\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eIts Basis In The Creative Interpretation Of Human Motives\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - 9781607961307","offer_id":58399254085957,"sku":"9781607961307","price":23.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/19deb0da-6abd-4a9e-be74-e606c5505a08.jpg?v=1782620343","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/the-art-of-dramatic-writing-von-lajos-egri","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}