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    The Art of Dramatic

    Writing: Its Basis in the


    Creative Interpretation of
    Human Motives
    By
    Lajos Egri
    Touchstone
    Amid 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
    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 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.
    Touchstone

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