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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... Rehearsal of Mourning : Chaikin's Trespassing In the preceding chapter we saw the performance of ambivalence dis- placed onto the form of tragedy . That displacement can be taken only one step further : into the rehearsal process itself ...
... rehearsal are too abundant to describe in their entirety ; many were dropped or elaborated during the rehearsals immediately preceding open- ing night at La Mama Annex on February 23 , 1982. But here are some of the most striking ...
... rehearsal itself . In Trespassing as originally conceived , Anna's deceased father returns as a ghost to mourn and be mourned by his only child . During rehearsals of the meeting between the ghost and Anna , both actors have trouble ...
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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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