a few brief notes...
Murray Bramwell in The Adelaide Review writes that Albee subtitled his goat play ‘notes towards a definition of tragedy’, or something like, and concludes from this, rightly I think, that he didn’t mean the bestiality to be taken literally, that he was primarily exploring the unspeakable notion of betrayal, especially the kind of betrayal that’s utterly unexpected and under-cutting.
Rightly, and yet… He certainly meant to play on the idea of real bestiality, to throw us as witnesses into a ‘how could you possibly do that, and to your wife?’ sort of quandary, so that we wonder what the ultimate crime is, the bestiality or the betrayal, and we feel uneasy about our responses and sympathies.
It’s sheeting down, the moths whirl and beat above my head, and I’m still not permitted to post a comment to Barista’s blog – having just read his monster post about the monstrous Joe Korp
Rightly, and yet… He certainly meant to play on the idea of real bestiality, to throw us as witnesses into a ‘how could you possibly do that, and to your wife?’ sort of quandary, so that we wonder what the ultimate crime is, the bestiality or the betrayal, and we feel uneasy about our responses and sympathies.
It’s sheeting down, the moths whirl and beat above my head, and I’m still not permitted to post a comment to Barista’s blog – having just read his monster post about the monstrous Joe Korp
posted by Stewart at 1:37 am
1 Comments:
I hate the comments problem. Mostly it is just the ellipse that it hates, but it seems to randomly get the sulks.
Soon we will move onto another system which will stop this problem.
- barista
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