Tragedy and Metatheatre: Essays on Dramatic FormHolmes & Meier, 2003 - 250 頁 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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... Shaw in his public capacity - both as politician and as playwright . But take them all away , burn his prefaces and ... Shaw at 80 " : And I am inclined to believe that the future will exactly reverse the opinion which his contemporaries ...
... Shaw in his public capacity - both as politician and as playwright . But take them all away , burn his prefaces and ... Shaw at 80 " : And I am inclined to believe that the future will exactly reverse the opinion which his contemporaries ...
第 207 頁
... Shaw calls " the destiny of nations , " and the audience , which has settled down to a night of fun , finds it must either trans- form itself from an audience of pleasure seekers into a " pit of philosophers " or flounder hopelessly in ...
... Shaw calls " the destiny of nations , " and the audience , which has settled down to a night of fun , finds it must either trans- form itself from an audience of pleasure seekers into a " pit of philosophers " or flounder hopelessly in ...
第 209 頁
... Shaw's comedies is that his raisonneurs tend to be active and have the task of carrying both the burden of being comical and the very opposite burden - that of representing what is presumably the right ( the Shavian ) position . It is ...
... Shaw's comedies is that his raisonneurs tend to be active and have the task of carrying both the burden of being comical and the very opposite burden - that of representing what is presumably the right ( the Shavian ) position . It is ...
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