Among the countless ‘how-to’ playwriting books which have appeared over the years, there have been few that try to analyze the mysteries of perform construction. Lajos Egri’s classic, The Art of Dramatic Writing, does that, with education that may be used equally well to a short story, book, or screenplay.

Examining a perform from the inside out, Egri starts with the heart of any drama: its characters. All great dramatic writing hinges on people and their relationships, which serve to go about The Art of Dramatic Composing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives the story forward and present it life, as well as a knowledge of human being motives – why people work just how that they do. Using examples from everything from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s Home, Egri shows how it is essential for the author to truly have a basic premise – a thesis, confirmed in terms of human behavior – and to develop the dramatic discord based on that behavior.

Using Egri’s ABCs of premise, figure, and conflict, The Art of Dramatic Composing is a direct, jargon-free approach to the issue of attaining truth in writing.