Art Of Dramatic WritingLajos 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