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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... human misery ; And the image of Sophocles hearing the note of " human misery " leads Arnold to this pessimistic declaration : Ah , love , let us be true To one another ! For the world , which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams ...
... human misery ; And the image of Sophocles hearing the note of " human misery " leads Arnold to this pessimistic declaration : Ah , love , let us be true To one another ! For the world , which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams ...
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... human existence more vivid by showing its vulnerability to fate . Metatheatre makes human existence more dreamlike by showing that fate can be overcome . Tragedy tries to mediate between the world and man . Trag- edy wants to be on both ...
... human existence more vivid by showing its vulnerability to fate . Metatheatre makes human existence more dreamlike by showing that fate can be overcome . Tragedy tries to mediate between the world and man . Trag- edy wants to be on both ...
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... human relation the mighty , coolly indifferent , and self - absorbed literary giant . Beckett did , in fact , make many efforts to get away from Joyce . All of his novels are , I think , flights from Joyce - perhaps toward Franz Kafka ...
... human relation the mighty , coolly indifferent , and self - absorbed literary giant . Beckett did , in fact , make many efforts to get away from Joyce . All of his novels are , I think , flights from Joyce - perhaps toward Franz Kafka ...
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Preface | 1 |
What Is Tragedy? | 27 |
METATHEATRE | 94 |
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