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Page 119
... Cathedral Thomas tries to decide how he will die after a sequence of events has rendered him politically expendable . This is not the subject matter for a tragedy in the classical sense because the movement in the play is undramatiz ...
... Cathedral Thomas tries to decide how he will die after a sequence of events has rendered him politically expendable . This is not the subject matter for a tragedy in the classical sense because the movement in the play is undramatiz ...
Page 121
... Cathedral sets an example of the mystic not so much escaping from the travails and demands of governance as choos- ing to ignore them in the interest of self preservation . In all civilizations , however , as in the universe , no single ...
... Cathedral sets an example of the mystic not so much escaping from the travails and demands of governance as choos- ing to ignore them in the interest of self preservation . In all civilizations , however , as in the universe , no single ...
Page 170
... Cathedral , the dramatists could alter history only at their own risk . While the mystical dimen- sion of Murder in the Cathedral does contain its own internal conflict for Thomas , it is divorced from the play's action , which moves ...
... Cathedral , the dramatists could alter history only at their own risk . While the mystical dimen- sion of Murder in the Cathedral does contain its own internal conflict for Thomas , it is divorced from the play's action , which moves ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Metaphysics of Tragic Construction | 9 |
The Method of Analysis | 15 |
Copyright | |
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