The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations (Classic Reprint)

Polti, Georges

ISBN 10: 1440071349 / ISBN 13: 9781440071348

Published by Forgotten Books, 2010

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Synopsis:

Uncover the Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations and how they shape every story you read or watch. This study presents a clear framework for understanding drama by organizing it into thirty-six core scenarios, each illustrated with wide-ranging examples.

Georges Polti’s introduction explains how these situations link to the emotions that drive human storytelling. The book argues that these patterns appear across cultures and epochs—from ancient Greece to modern theater—and that they can guide both analysis and creation. It blends literary and real‑world examples to show how a single situation can generate many different plots.

• Identify the core situations and sub‑classes that recur in drama and life.


• See how the framework travels across cultures, genres, and periods.


• Explore how writers can adapt classic templates to craft new, convincing plots.


• Review hundreds of examples drawn from stage, literature, and reality to illuminate each concept.

Ideal for readers of literary theory and aspiring dramatists who want a practical map of dramatic possibility.

Product Description: FOREWORD
The prefaces of many books are more enduring than the letter-press they introduce. It is as if an author's after-thoughts more nearly express his real thoughts than his well-considered, neatly planned succession of chapters. The reason for this, though a natural one, came to me only as I read and re-read the proofs of "The Thirty-six Dramatic Situations": as an author's work is unrolled before him in the type of the galley-proofs, the first sight of the printed words induces a freshness of mind that is near relative to the fine frenzy of first conception; added to this mental freshness there is a maturity--for are not months .of thought behind the chapters of the work?-that makes the author's thoughts as grandparents with the enthusiasms of youth. In the prefaces, then, the authors find outlets to express their own reactions to their own thoughts.
I have been step-father to Miss Lucile Ray's translation of George Polti's book. My own vague notions of the text, gained

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Bibliographic Details

Title: The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations (Classic ...
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good