Deliver us from evil : essays on symbolic engagement in early drama

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Deliver us from evil : essays on symbolic engagement in early drama

by Clifford Davidson

AMS Press, c2004

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

The focus of this book is on the reality of evil for medieval and Renaissance dramatists and their audiences. What propels the work beyond similar critiques is the author's insistence that evil is not an outmoded feature of past societies, but an active ingredient of contemporary life. Davidson fast forwards from distant times once described as ""calamitous"" to a century of far more violence and atrocity - our own twentieth and its overflow. While drawing on Kant to illuminate the kinds of evil portrayed in early drama through Marlowe and Shakespeare, Davidson refers to contemporary events that scream for an adjective for which there is no better - evil. In passing, he faults the Nietzsche-Foucault line for contributing to the trivializing of evil in postmodern times. In a survey that ranges from Greek drama and the Church Fathers through De Sade, Dostoyevsky, Beckett, and Ingmar Bergman, Davidson drives to his conclusion that ""an important function of drama has always been to bring a realization of evil into our consciousness and indeed, through giving symbolic form to it, to make us feel its power as a demonic force in human lives.

目次

  • Preface
  • 1. Polemical Introduction: Evil In Play
  • 2. The Lord's Prayer, The Seven Deadly Sins, And Playing Against Evil
  • 3. Temptation, Fall, And Resistance
  • 4. Emperor, King, And Saint
  • 5. ""Let Not The Pit Shut Her Mouth Upon Me""
  • 6. The Individual, The Community, And The Threat Of Evil
  • 7. Authority, Conflict, And War
  • Conclusion
  • Index

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