Wednesday, February 26, 2014  Out Late with Friends and Regrets
by Suzanne Egerton  Book: Out Late with Friends and Regrets
Author: Suzanne Egerton Publisher: Paddy’s Daddy Publishing  If
it weren’t for a bad comb over, a walrus moustache, or the pesky
little fact that he was born in 1816, Gustav Freytag could well
have been a modern lesbian author—he was a soldier, scholar,
poet, novelist, critic, playwright, editor, and publicist.  And
five will get you ten that if he had access to Photoshop, he’d
have designed his own book covers.  But Gustav Freytag was
indeed a man, and his name is rarely muttered outside of certain
literary circles because his novels, poems, plays, and critiques
were mediocre at best. But for those who understand the
philosophic roots of dramatic structure, Gustav Freytag is an
unabashed rock star simply because he was able to expand upon
Aristotle’s thesis from The Poetics that plot structure must
have "a beginning, a middle and an end." Generally known by the
catchy title, “Freytag’s