Tragedy and Metatheatre: Essays on Dramatic FormHolmes & Meier, 2003 - 250 pagina's 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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Pagina 63
... Athaliah fell victim to the only grandson whom she had failed to kill . Except for this grandson , Joash , and her father , Ahab , every male member of Athaliah's immediate family was either de- stroyed by God or slain by her . God ...
... Athaliah fell victim to the only grandson whom she had failed to kill . Except for this grandson , Joash , and her father , Ahab , every male member of Athaliah's immediate family was either de- stroyed by God or slain by her . God ...
Pagina 65
... Athaliah is scarcely depicted in the Book of Kings . We hear nothing that she says ; she is never characterized ; only her deeds are told . The only poetry she has comes from the facts of her story . The figure of Athaliah , as the ...
... Athaliah is scarcely depicted in the Book of Kings . We hear nothing that she says ; she is never characterized ; only her deeds are told . The only poetry she has comes from the facts of her story . The figure of Athaliah , as the ...
Pagina 88
... Athaliah , the verses of the young girls , in ado- ration of His glory , have the further purpose of indicating how weak Athaliah is , how certain her destruction . I have the im- pression in reading the play that after each chorus ...
... Athaliah , the verses of the young girls , in ado- ration of His glory , have the further purpose of indicating how weak Athaliah is , how certain her destruction . I have the im- pression in reading the play that after each chorus ...
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