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.
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