Shakespeare, Our Contemporary by Jan Kott
Author:Jan Kott [Kott, Jan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8041-5219-8
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2015-01-21T05:00:00+00:00
The world is real, and the shoe really pinches. Suffering is also real. But the gesture with which the ruin of a man demands that his pinching shoe be taken off is ridiculous. Just as ridiculous as blind Gloucester’s somersault on the flat empty stage.
The Biblical Job, too, is the ruin of a man. But this ruin constantly talks to God. He curses, imprecates, blasphemes. Ultimately he admits that God is right. He has justified his sufferings and ennobled them. He included them in the metaphysical and absolute order. The Book of Job is a theatre of the priests. Whereas in both Shakespearean and Beckettian Endgames the Book of Job is performed by clowns. But here, too, the gods are invoked throughout by all the characters; by Lear, Gloucester, Kent, even Albany:
KING LEAR
By Jupiter, I swear no!
KENT
By Juno, I swear ay!
(II, 4)
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