Perspectives on Drama

Absurd action actor Aristotle artistic audience become called character comedy comic complete created critics dance death dialogue dramatist Duchess of Malfi effect elements Elizabethan emotional ence essential example existence experience fact feeling function give Hamlet happen human idea identity illusion imagery imagination imitation Ionesco kind King language Lear linear lines literary live Macbeth magic mask masque MAX FRISCH means ment mind modern Mummers myth nature Oedipus ourselves passion patterned language performance perhaps persons play playwright plot poet poetic drama poetry possible present primitive reality reason relation religion religious represented Richard Southern rite ritual sacred scene sense Shakespeare situation speak spectator speech stage story symbol T. S. Eliot Tennessee Williams theatre theatrical thing thought tion tragedy and comedy tragic hero truth unity verse Volpone Waiting for Godot whole words writing