[ePub] In the Footsteps of Popes: A Spirited Guide to the Treasures of the Vatican by Enrico Bruschini at Arts-Photography

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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 Shakespeares play that makes his later suicide seem inevitable? Why must Nora leave her husband at the end of A Dolls 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 Egris ABC. His book is a direct; jargon-free approach to the problem of achieving truth in a literary creation.