philosophy and theatre an introduction
emotion. The death of a loved one is obviously a terrible thing; but the feeling that one has in relation to that event is not n ...
in pain, then reminding me that the person I am seeing is not in fact in pain–that she is an actress, or a storyteller–might be ...
get from a particular tragedy may require self-examination, or perhaps literary criticism and analysis of the tragedy in questio ...
the audience–something that Brecht accepts, albeit in a qualified way. For that can’t be all there is to it: one of the truths c ...
wrote itdown); if it indicates a completely different text on poetry, then that other text is lost. An answer to this riddle is ...
technology. And if theatre doesn’t explore and represent those relations, then it risks becoming obsolete or irrelevant.^52 The ...
‘a grotesque monument of sterility’.^56 Nor is it surprising that the word ‘catharsis’, like‘freedom’and‘justice’, has been used ...
is precisely that his plays don’t offer much to stimulate critical thought and action in response to the problems presented. The ...
out of your system’, which, just as in English, could easily develop into metaphor. If vomiting is‘getting something out of my s ...
Theodor Adorno, for example, offers a cluster of criticisms of Brecht: that he is too simplistically utopian; that he is arrogan ...
because there was always trouble brewing. However, in the case of thea- tre, there doesn’t seem to be an obvious candidate for w ...
essays [...] I told them a story I thought was well known, though they hadn’t heard it. Back in the early twenties, Brecht’s pla ...
Aristotle, the purging claim faces all of this and more. For one thing, Aristotle has a particular view about what it is to be a ...
philosophical thinking;andhe worked hard and experimented, trying to bring such a theatre about. This is an intoxicating mixture ...
suggested, along the lines that it offers a kind of moral training or edu- cation, which makes your emotions–and therefore you, ...
12 This example was taken from Cartledge (1997), which contains many others related to tragedy. It’s clear that Greek comedy off ...
general, we respond emotionally to fictional characters. And, before explaining how tragedy purges or purifies our fear, we migh ...
39 I am using Miller’s play by way of example. But Miller obviously had some contemporary political targets in mind when he wrot ...
17 Stendhal (1962: 24). 18 For a contemporary defence of a version of this response, see Suits (2006), who argues that, given a ...
Bibliography Adorno, T (1980)‘Commitment’ in Jameson, F. (ed.) Aesthetics and Politics. London: Verso, 1980, pp. 177–195. Aeschy ...
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