Dramatic Structure Quotes

“It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.”
― Don DeLillo

“If I could rewrite the ending of any Shakespeare play, it would definitely be the finale of Romeo and Juliet. That dénouement just seems so far-fetched, over-complicated, and forced into a tragedy. It would have worked much better with a happier ending. While it is realistic that young lovers might take their own lives because of relentless interference and persecution, the Tragic Ex Machina (a sudden, unearned disastrous intervention) mechanism chosen was neither believable nor apt. The Bard perfected the character-driven tragic architecture later in Hamlet and King Lear.”
― Stewart Stafford