The Absent One: Mourning Ritual, Tragedy, and the Performance of AmbivalencePennsylvania State University Press, 1985 - 183 sider 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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... loss of " occupation , " which includes more than the marital or the martial . This speech is Othello's lament for the loss of life , his own.27 His farewell to his “ occupation " is his farewell to the action of taking up space and ...
... loss Iago creates an answering sense of loss in Othello and makes him a mourner like himself , a “ mourner without content . " In this way , “ absence " has been made present in the life of the protagonist . But Othello ...
... loss of " occupation " in the bitterest way possible . Brabantio is mourning a symbolic loss , and yet his grief is mortal . The unmourned fa- ther in the play is mourning his own death . Brabantio , Iago , and Othello ( up to the ...
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Aeschyluss The Persians | 29 |
Racines Phèdre | 61 |
Ibsens Ghosts | 75 |
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