Tragic Plots: A New Reading from Aeschylus to LorcaRosslyn (English, U. of Leicester) traces the central stream of feeling in tragic drama across time and cultural barriers, particularly looking at what the audience needs expressed and what the artist does to meet that need. Though the plays themselves provide the evidence, and the plots reveal which problems the audience is most preoccupied with, she warns that scholars must be alive to the difference between what they say they are about, what they think they are about, and what audiences sense they really are about. The playwright, she says, may be as unclear as everyone else about the real motive for writing. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR |
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... Torvald's ' little squirrel frisking about ' , ' eating macaroons and teasing her husband for more money , which he ... Torvald ; and Nora replies , ' Hundreds and thousands of women have ' ( p . 84 ) . Nora's understanding of honour is ...
... Torvald's ' little squirrel frisking about ' , ' eating macaroons and teasing her husband for more money , which he ... Torvald ; and Nora replies , ' Hundreds and thousands of women have ' ( p . 84 ) . Nora's understanding of honour is ...
Page 175
... Torvald , Ibsen gives a satirical insight into the kind of male who takes most advantage of the patriarchal bargain . Although Torvald has some admirable qualities - he was a scrupulous barrister who refused any case ' the least bit ...
... Torvald , Ibsen gives a satirical insight into the kind of male who takes most advantage of the patriarchal bargain . Although Torvald has some admirable qualities - he was a scrupulous barrister who refused any case ' the least bit ...
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... Torvald , and that's also what it says in books . But I'm not content any more with what most people say , or with ... Torvald's discomfiture , we may suspect , that he endows Nora with more clarity than she would be likely to have ...
... Torvald , and that's also what it says in books . But I'm not content any more with what most people say , or with ... Torvald's discomfiture , we may suspect , that he endows Nora with more clarity than she would be likely to have ...
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