The Absent One: Mourning Ritual, Tragedy, and the Performance of Ambivalence

absence action actor Alving ambivalence Anna's appearance attempt audience become begins body bring child Chorus context Darius dead death deceased desire direction displaced dream dying enactment example Exit experience expressed eyes face father fear feel figure final funeral funerary ritual ghost give grave Greek Greek tragedy grief Hamlet hand heart Hippolytus hold human inheritance journey killed kind King lament Lear liminal lines living look loss lost Marguerite means mother mourner mourning move murder nature never Notes Oedipus offers once Oswald Othello paradox performance performance of ambivalence Persians Phaedra Philoctetes play possible present protagonist realm rehearsal relationship replace represents response rites role says scene seems sense sound space speak speech spirit stage suggests symbolic tells Theseus tion tragedy tragic tragic drama turn Willy woman Xerxes