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
... means by which to break the artificiality of the theatre . I think that there can be no doubt that these plays are ... mean rather different things . The term metatheatre tells us that the theatre reflects on itself , but it does not ...
... means by which to break the artificiality of the theatre . I think that there can be no doubt that these plays are ... mean rather different things . The term metatheatre tells us that the theatre reflects on itself , but it does not ...
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... mean another . " But this hardly answers our question as to whether Ajax did or did not mean to de- ceive Tecmessa . As for Knox's solution , it is quite hopeless . He claims that Ajax could hardly be intent on deceiving anyone in ...
... mean another . " But this hardly answers our question as to whether Ajax did or did not mean to de- ceive Tecmessa . As for Knox's solution , it is quite hopeless . He claims that Ajax could hardly be intent on deceiving anyone in ...
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... meaning , state- ment . We will put the opposing views in an exaggerated form : a work of art means ( a fairly definite ) something ; or , a work of art means anything . The status of poetry in Greece being what it was , one to which ...
... meaning , state- ment . We will put the opposing views in an exaggerated form : a work of art means ( a fairly definite ) something ; or , a work of art means anything . The status of poetry in Greece being what it was , one to which ...
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