Precipitations of Theater
Words, Presence, Time out of Mind
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4791714 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Herbert Blau (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 127 |
| Publication date | 1980-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/468810 |
| OpenAlex | W2318705194 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
HE CUE IS LYRIC, but a preview of theater-this surreptitious anxiety tensed out of us by words. There is an incitement of action in the insidious motion, a play of mind that will not hold still. What we see in the quatrain is enlarged on the stage, as if the dull substance of the flesh were thought. No sooner thought, it may leap to the quick in a conditional passion: beauty have a soul ... If... If ... If . ..; thus Troilus, publishing a of Cressida, that inseparate division, admitting no orifice for a point as subtle/ As Ariachne's broken woof to enter (Troilus and Cressida, 5. 2. 134-48), and with another knot of fanatic reason the whole truth shattered to
Art · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Classical Antiquity Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2021 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |