Blue Balls of Fire and the Ethics of Spectatorship: Verlaine, Yeats, Beckett
This paper looks at three short dramatic scenes by Paul Verlaine, W. B. Yeats and Samuel Beckett which all pick up that most conventional of theatrical themes, thwarted love, only in a disturbing way, by shifting the focus from the torments of the soul to the painful embodied experience of sexual fr...
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| Main Author: | Alexandra Poulain |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2020-11-01
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| Series: | Angles |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/angles/2432 |
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