Tragedy and Metatheatre: Essays on Dramatic FormHolmes & Meier, 2003 - Всего страниц: 250 Lionel Abel's original Metatheatre, now published in the company of new essays, has inspired a whole generation of playwrights and critics since it first appeared in 1963. Indeed, to insiders the very word 'metatheatre', coined by Lionel Abel, has become as familiar as the plays the author uses to exemplify his theory. Abel's basic premise is that "tragedy is difficult if not altogether impossible for the modern dramatist." Having identified the modern, existential dilemma (for both playwright and audience), Abel sets out to provide a theory for its resolution. In doing so he illuminates plays by Sophocles, Shakespeare, Calderón, Racine, Wilde, Genet, Brecht, Beckett, Pirandello, and others with ease and probity, offering a new generation of readers fresh, insightful interpretations. And if anyone thinks Lionel Abel has tempered his style be forewarned: As in his opening critique of those he considers to be playing 'language games', his criticism remains as piercing as ever. |
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... Dream ( La vida es sueño ) is the title of Calderón's most paradigmatic play , but the whole conceit of the dream is itself only a theatrical technique to allow the play to move from one layer of " reality " to the next . The ...
... Dream ( La vida es sueño ) is the title of Calderón's most paradigmatic play , but the whole conceit of the dream is itself only a theatrical technique to allow the play to move from one layer of " reality " to the next . The ...
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... dream , which she recounts to her advisers : her mother , Jezebel , has appeared to her In the dreadful deep of night My mother Jezebel rose up before me , ' 10 and told her that she , too , is about to be overwhelmed by the cruel Old ...
... dream , which she recounts to her advisers : her mother , Jezebel , has appeared to her In the dreadful deep of night My mother Jezebel rose up before me , ' 10 and told her that she , too , is about to be overwhelmed by the cruel Old ...
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... dream . All this the Spanish playwright could glean from Cervantes's great novel . There is still further reason for not associating Life Is a Dream with any work by Shakespeare . The latter , as I have tried to show , felt the need to ...
... dream . All this the Spanish playwright could glean from Cervantes's great novel . There is still further reason for not associating Life Is a Dream with any work by Shakespeare . The latter , as I have tried to show , felt the need to ...
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Preface | 1 |
What Is Tragedy? | 27 |
METATHEATRE | 94 |
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