Criticism
Four Faults
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8918499 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Kirby (0000-0002-4791-3582, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 59-68 |
| Publication date | 1974-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Drama Review TDR (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-5962 • E-ISSN: 2326-2060 |
| Publisher | The MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1144925 |
| OpenAlex | W2796991513 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Theatrical criticism, as we know it, is primitive and naive, arrogant, and immoral. We accept that this should be so because it always has been so. Mental and cultural inertia justifies nothing, however. Criticism should be changed. There are two aspects to criticism: the passing of value judgments and analysis. It is the former that will be questioned here. Indeed, the word “criticism” will be used to refer specifically to the act of publishing statements of value. (One definition given by Webster is “a finding fault; censuring; disapproval.”) Thus, the evaluative and analytical functions will be considered as separate and distinct; “analysis” will be opposed to “criticism” rather than being included in it. In these terms, it is not merely a change that will be asked of criticism. Criticism as value judgment is a harmful anachronism and should be eliminated completely
Art · Criticism · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literary criticism · Literary science · Literary theory · Literature · New Criticism · Nothing · Sociological criticism · Theatre criticism · Value (mathematics · Artistic and Creative Research · Computer Science · Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art · Philosophy · Psychology · Samuel Beckett and Modernism
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2020 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |