The Tiger, the Painting and the Bottle of Whisky: Alternative Discourses in David Edgar’s Destiny (1976)

The Tiger, the Painting and the Bottle of Whisky: Alternative Discourses in David Edgar’s Destiny (1976)

Although critics may tend to focus on the dialogue in political plays like Destiny where words are obviously important, it would be a mistake to underestimate the contribution of objects of one sort or another. Nor should we limit our analysis of these objects to their purely functional capacity. In...

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Autore principale: Blattès, Susan
Natura: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lingua:Anglais
Pubblicazione: Études britanniques contemporaines 2019
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:ebc_6006 https://doi.org/10.4000/ebc.6006 urn:doi:10.4000/ebc.6006 en https://journals.openedition.org/ebc/6006 2019-04-05T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/fe8m https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ The Tiger, the Painting and the Bottle of Whisky: Alternative Discourses in David Edgar’s Destiny (1976) Études britanniques contemporaines Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2271-5444 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1168-4917 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ebc Blattès, Susan Although critics may tend to focus on the dialogue in political plays like Destiny where words are obviously important, it would be a mistake to underestimate the contribution of objects of one sort or another. Nor should we limit our analysis of these objects to their purely functional capacity. In fact “things” may serve many and diverse purposes at different moments in the action. Using Bert O. States’s opposition between the opacity and transparency of the theatrical object in his study of the phenomenology of theatre, this article focuses on three “things” to illustrate the extreme diversity and flexibility of the theatrical object. The three objects range from the banal to the exotic and serve purposes which vary from the functional or structural to the symbolic. Furthermore we can note how the intermittent or recurrent presence of things on the stage gives rise to alternative discourses in which the verbal does not necessarily carry more weight than the visual. Ultimately, we will show that a study of “things” highlights the specifically theatrical dimensions of this play. Dans une pièce politique comme Destiny où le texte joue un rôle fondamental, il est tentant de s’intéresser surtout au dialogue. Il ne faudrait pas pour autant sous- estimer le rôle joué par les objets scéniques. Ces objets n’ont pas seulement une fonction utilitaire. Leurs fonctions sont multiples et peuvent évoluer au cours de l’action. A partir de l’opposition faite par Bert O. States, dans son étude sur la phénoménologie théâtrale, entre la transparence et l’opacité de l’objet théâtral, cet article s’intéresse à trois objets, du plus banal au plus exotique, qui occupent des fonctions variées dans la pièce. Nous constaterons que la présence continue ou récurrente de « choses » sur la scène est à l’origine d’autres discours susceptibles de contester par moments la suprématie du verbal par rapport au visuel. Ainsi l’étude des objets nous permet de faire ressortir la dimension proprement théâtrale d’une œuvre comme Destiny.
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description Although critics may tend to focus on the dialogue in political plays like Destiny where words are obviously important, it would be a mistake to underestimate the contribution of objects of one sort or another. Nor should we limit our analysis of these objects to their purely functional capacity. In fact “things” may serve many and diverse purposes at different moments in the action. Using Bert O. States’s opposition between the opacity and transparency of the theatrical object in his study of the phenomenology of theatre, this article focuses on three “things” to illustrate the extreme diversity and flexibility of the theatrical object. The three objects range from the banal to the exotic and serve purposes which vary from the functional or structural to the symbolic. Furthermore we can note how the intermittent or recurrent presence of things on the stage gives rise to alternative discourses in which the verbal does not necessarily carry more weight than the visual. Ultimately, we will show that a study of “things” highlights the specifically theatrical dimensions of this play.
author Blattès, Susan
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title_full The Tiger, the Painting and the Bottle of Whisky: Alternative Discourses in David Edgar’s Destiny (1976)
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