Theatre-Fiction in Britain From Henry James to Doris Lessing by Wolfe Graham;

Author:Wolfe, Graham;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2020-03-08T16:00:00+00:00

Other spectators will return to this metaphor, expressly linking the rain with a Walt Whitman poem: “tell me, did you feel when the shower fell, someone wept for us all? There’s a poem, Tears tears tears, it begins” (136). If for several critics La Trobe enacts a “death of the author” (Joplin 90)—“letting meaning emerge from the matière of the present rather than controlling it for her own purposes” (Pridmore-Brown 181)—the operations of nature are almost instantaneously re-inscribed with human culture: the shower becomes a demonstration of Whitman’s eternal insight and a revelation that nature is concerned about dramatic timing. In other moments, Woolf’s narrative directly conveys how nature is made to speak in human terms when framed by performance and music: “The view repeated in its own way what the tune was saying. The sun was sinking; the colours were merging; and the view was saying how after toil men rest from their labours; how coolness comes; reason prevails . . . The cows, making a step forward, then standing still, were saying the same thing to perfection” (92). To stage a show outdoors is not necessarily to interrogate or undermine anthropocentric perceptions—but perhaps there are ways in which Woolf’s “literarization of theatre” goes further in this regard than much theatre itself.

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