The Life of the DramaAtheneum, 1964 - 371 Seiten "Eric Bentley's radical new look at the grammar of theatre...is a work of exceptional virtue... The book justifies its title by being precisely about the ways in which life manifests itself in the theatre...This is a book to be read again and again." - Frank Kermode, The New York Review of Books |
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... Poetry and the Great Characters . The Poetry can be exhibited in extracts . The Characters could be celebrated in books which abstracted them from the play and invented for them what the poet had forgotten to mention . This way of ...
... Poetry and the Great Characters . The Poetry can be exhibited in extracts . The Characters could be celebrated in books which abstracted them from the play and invented for them what the poet had forgotten to mention . This way of ...
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... poetic drama inevitably turn out to be over- lyrical , though it seems to me that T. S. Eliot went the other way , left the poetry out of most of his poetic plays , and developed a verse rhetoric of considerable expressive and dramatic ...
... poetic drama inevitably turn out to be over- lyrical , though it seems to me that T. S. Eliot went the other way , left the poetry out of most of his poetic plays , and developed a verse rhetoric of considerable expressive and dramatic ...
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... poetry . He made a fine art of the understatement , the evasion , the unfinished sentence . In a sense his writing undercuts poetry — and reduces it to triviality . This happens with Hedda Gabler's poetic phrase " vine leaves in his ...
... poetry . He made a fine art of the understatement , the evasion , the unfinished sentence . In a sense his writing undercuts poetry — and reduces it to triviality . This happens with Hedda Gabler's poetic phrase " vine leaves in his ...
Inhalt
PLOT The Raw Material of Plot | 3 |
CHARACTER The Raw Material of Character | 34 |
DIALOGUE Talking | 70 |
Urheberrecht | |
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