TheatreTheoryTheatre: The Major Critical Texts From Aristotle and Zeami to Soyinka and Havel by Daniel Gerould

Author:Daniel Gerould [Gerould, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781557835277
Amazon: 1557835276
Publisher: Applause
Published: 2003-11-01T23:00:00+00:00

Where the influence of civil laws ends that of the stage begins. Where venality and corruption blind and bias justice and judgment, and intimidation perverts its ends, the stage seizes the sword and scales and pronounces a terrible verdict on vice. The fields of fancy and of history are open to the stage; great criminals of the past live over again in the drama, and thus benefit an indignant posterity. They pass before us as empty shadows of their age, and we heap curses on their memory while we enjoy on the stage the very horror of their crimes. When morality is no more taught, religion no longer received, or laws exist, Medea would still terrify us with her infanticide. The sight of Lady Macbeth, while it makes us shudder, will also make us rejoice in a good conscience, when we see her, the sleepwalker, washing her hands and seeking to destroy the awful smell of murder. Sight is always more powerful to man than description; hence the stage acts more powerfully than morality or law.

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