Synge's Tragic Vision Of The Old Mother And The Sea

TRAGEDY IS REMARKABLY ECONOMICAL IN ITS exploitation of grea.t visual archetypes-those stark icons which radiate behind the tragic action and illumiriate the universal agony within the private grief. The literature of Western Christianity has, indeed, given dramatic expression to so few images of visual intensity that the tragedian, working within the limited imagistic range of the tradition, is often obliged to exploit an iconographical situation which has already passed into the 'repertory stock of all drama; and to make it radiate his particular tragic vision is, of course, the measure of his genius

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