The Absent One: Mourning Ritual, Tragedy, and the Performance of AmbivalencePennsylvania State University Press, 1985 - 183 Seiten Here is presented a new theory of the origins of tragedy, based on its perceived kinship with mourning ritual. Mourners and tragic protagonists alike journey through dangerous transitional states, confront the uncanny, express themselves in antithetical style, and, above all, enact their ambivalence toward their beloved dead. Elements common to both tragedy and mourning ritual are first identified in actual Chinese, African, and Greek funerary rites and then analyzed in tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Racine, Ibsen, O'Neill, Miller, Beckett, and Ionesco. Included is a firsthand account of exploration of the tragedy-mourning link in the rehearsal process of the great experimental theater director, Joseph Chaikin. Opening her first chapter, Dr. Cole says, "The grave is the birthplace of tragic drama and ghosts are its procreators. For tragedy is the performance of ambivalence which ghosts emblematize: what we fear in particular--the revenant, the ghost returning to haunt us--is also what we desire--the extending of life beyond the moment of death." |
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... Darius to his pas- sive role as the truly fallen ( deceased ) figure ; when Xerxes recasts him- self as mourner in the presence of his deceased father , his ambivalence is ritualized . In Atossa's dream Xerxes reenacts his mourning for ...
... [ Darius ] hear me ? the blessed king equal to God [ the Greek word here is daimōn ] , As I send my native cries Shrill and varied and clear , Woeful sorrowful shrieks ? Will my pitiful woes Penetrate through ? Can he hear me then below ...
... Darius . Darius says , " Zeus hurled down against my son accomplishment of prophecies , " and reminds his audience that " first Lord Zeus bestowed on us this honored rule : / That a single man should hold the whole of Asia , nurse / Of ...
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Aeschyluss The Persians | 29 |
Racines Phèdre | 61 |
Ibsens Ghosts | 75 |
Urheberrecht | |
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The Absent One: Mourning Ritual, Tragedy, and the Performance of Ambivalence Susan L. Cole Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2010 |
The Absent One: Mourning Ritual, Tragedy, and the Performance of Ambivalence Susan L. Cole Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1991 |
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