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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... Esslin claims that ( 1 ) there was a Theatre of the Absurd in the past and ( 2 ) the group of contemporary dramatists whom he has singled out write the kinds of plays they do in response to a particular crisis the world is going through ...
... Esslin claims that ( 1 ) there was a Theatre of the Absurd in the past and ( 2 ) the group of contemporary dramatists whom he has singled out write the kinds of plays they do in response to a particular crisis the world is going through ...
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... Esslin's whole concept . Ionesco thinks absurdity is something new ; 2 Esslin wants to give us news of the absurd . Esslin talks a lot about Beckett and Genet . But in the fairly detailed analyses he makes of their lives and work he is ...
... Esslin's whole concept . Ionesco thinks absurdity is something new ; 2 Esslin wants to give us news of the absurd . Esslin talks a lot about Beckett and Genet . But in the fairly detailed analyses he makes of their lives and work he is ...
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... Esslin's list of abstractions to do with the life of Samuel Beckett ? And what has that life to do with a general cultural crisis ? These are the connections Esslin is obliged to establish , and he does not . On the subject of Genet ...
... Esslin's list of abstractions to do with the life of Samuel Beckett ? And what has that life to do with a general cultural crisis ? These are the connections Esslin is obliged to establish , and he does not . On the subject of Genet ...
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