Dramatic Story Structure: A Primer for Screenwriters

Entire libraries explore in great depth the many facets of the world of drama. In this handy primer, Edward Fink condenses centuries of writing about dramatic theory into a concise and readable guide to the fundamental principles of dramatic story structure. The structure of this book is straightforward. The first six chapters examine the six elements of drama discussed by Aristotle in 'The Poetics'. A seventh chapter discusses five additional concepts: unity, metaphor, style, universality, and catharsis.