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 17
... actors to stop acting , recommending that they imagine themselves as witnesses or narrators instead . The theatre , for Brecht , was a dangerous art form , “ culinary " as he put it , catering to the masses ; his own " epic " theatre ...
... actors to stop acting , recommending that they imagine themselves as witnesses or narrators instead . The theatre , for Brecht , was a dangerous art form , “ culinary " as he put it , catering to the masses ; his own " epic " theatre ...
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... actor's voices , what we hear is amplified and prerecorded , and sometimes the actor's bodies are hidden behind flat ... actors in the film , including the montage with which the film breaks up the integrity of 16. Béla Balazs , Theory ...
... actor's voices , what we hear is amplified and prerecorded , and sometimes the actor's bodies are hidden behind flat ... actors in the film , including the montage with which the film breaks up the integrity of 16. Béla Balazs , Theory ...
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... actor in his parents ' script ? They chide him , spank him , dress him , coddle him , order him around : to be a child means to take direction . ( Actors in gen- eral are childlike . ) Certainly Hamlet , as a child , must have been ...
... actor in his parents ' script ? They chide him , spank him , dress him , coddle him , order him around : to be a child means to take direction . ( Actors in gen- eral are childlike . ) Certainly Hamlet , as a child , must have been ...
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