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

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

Cole, Susan L.

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Literary CriticismTheater HistoryPlays

ISBN10: 0271007850
ISBN13: 9780271007854
Publisher: Penn St Univ Pr
Published: Sep 15 1991
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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