Into The Woods: A Five-act Journey Into Story
by John Yorke /
2015 / English / EPUB
2.4 MB Download
The Revolutionary guide to dramatic writing, whether
you’re writing the next Chinatown, Breaking Bad, or Glengarry
Glen Ross.
The Revolutionary guide to dramatic writing, whether
you’re writing the next Chinatown, Breaking Bad, or Glengarry
Glen Ross.The idea of Into the Woods is not to supplant works by
Aristotle, Lajos Egri, Robert McKee, David Mamet, or any other
writers of guides for screenwriters and playwrights, but to pick up
on their cues and take the reader on a historical, philosophical,
scientific, and psychological journey to the heart of all
storytelling. In this exciting and wholly original book, John Yorke
not only shows that there is truly a unifying shape to
narrative―one that echoes the great fairytale journey into the
woods, and one, like any great art, that comes from deep within―he
explains why, too.
The idea of Into the Woods is not to supplant works by
Aristotle, Lajos Egri, Robert McKee, David Mamet, or any other
writers of guides for screenwriters and playwrights, but to pick up
on their cues and take the reader on a historical, philosophical,
scientific, and psychological journey to the heart of all
storytelling. In this exciting and wholly original book, John Yorke
not only shows that there is truly a unifying shape to
narrative―one that echoes the great fairytale journey into the
woods, and one, like any great art, that comes from deep within―he
explains why, too.
With examples ranging from The Godfather to True Detective, Mad Men
to Macbeth, and fairy tales to Forbrydelsen (The Killing), Yorke
utilizes Shakespearean five-act structure as a key to analyzing all
storytelling in all narrative forms, from film and television to
theatre and novel-writing―a big step from the usual three-act
approach.
With examples ranging from The Godfather to True Detective, Mad Men
to Macbeth, and fairy tales to Forbrydelsen (The Killing), Yorke
utilizes Shakespearean five-act structure as a key to analyzing all
storytelling in all narrative forms, from film and television to
theatre and novel-writing―a big step from the usual three-act
approach.
Into the Woods: A Five-Act Journey Into Story is destined to sit
alongside David Mamet’s Three Uses of the Knife, Robert McKee’s
Story, Syd Field’s Screenplay, and Lajos Egri’s The Art of Dramatic
Writing as one of the most original, useful, and inspiring books
ever on dramatic writing. 20 b&w illustrations
Into the Woods: A Five-Act Journey Into Story is destined to sit
alongside David Mamet’s Three Uses of the Knife, Robert McKee’s
Story, Syd Field’s Screenplay, and Lajos Egri’s The Art of Dramatic
Writing as one of the most original, useful, and inspiring books
ever on dramatic writing. 20 b&w illustrations