{"product_id":"9781607961307","title":"The Art Of Dramatic Writing","description":"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 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.","brand":"Beta Nu Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056967434480,"sku":"9781607961307","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781607961307_p0.jpg?v=1763838178","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781607961307","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}