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 183
... thing as humanistic tragedy . There is no such thing as religious metatheatre . George Lukacs has said that the principal spectator of tragedy is God . I cannot imag- ine God present at a play of Shaw , Pirandello , or Genet . I cannot ...
... thing as humanistic tragedy . There is no such thing as religious metatheatre . George Lukacs has said that the principal spectator of tragedy is God . I cannot imag- ine God present at a play of Shaw , Pirandello , or Genet . I cannot ...
Pagina 198
... thing for- bidden ; but what is so bad about it ? No effort has been made to make it seem alluring ; the whole business of waiting for it , getting it , taking it , and getting that all - meaningful " flash " from it has been shown in ...
... thing for- bidden ; but what is so bad about it ? No effort has been made to make it seem alluring ; the whole business of waiting for it , getting it , taking it , and getting that all - meaningful " flash " from it has been shown in ...
Pagina 223
... thing that happened to Beckett was also the best thing that happened to him - his encounter with Joyce . We can only speculate about their relationship , to be sure , but on the other hand we do know something about the two men ...
... thing that happened to Beckett was also the best thing that happened to him - his encounter with Joyce . We can only speculate about their relationship , to be sure , but on the other hand we do know something about the two men ...
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