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That the study of drama requires an approach that is distinct from the study of other literary forms becomes even clearer when one considers what Jonas Barish has provocatively called the theatre’s ‘licentious ways with time and space’.1 For, while the plastic arts occupy space and the narrative arts time, the theatre makes free and simultaneous use of both. To translate dramatic text into performance, therefore, is to pass from the single temporal dimension of reading to the simultaneously temporal and spatial dimensions of performance; and what the director does on stage, the reader must do in his imagination.
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J. Barish, The Anti-theatrical Prejudice (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981) p. 136.
G. E. Lessing, Laocoön, trans. E. A. McCormick (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1984).
Virgil, The Aeneid, 2:199–223; trans. W. F. J. Knight (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1958) pp. 57–8.
H. Adams (ed.), Critical Theory since Plato (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971) p. 348.
G. H. C. Macgregor, The Gospel of John (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1928) p. 51.
M. Dods, The Gospel of St. John (New York: Armstrong, 1902) 2 vols., 1, p. 71.
K. Barth, Erklarung des Johannes-Evangeliums (Kapitel 1–8) (Zurich: Theologischer Verlag, 1976) p. 192,
cites Calvin’s view that the passage warns against the worship of Mary and Zündel’s opinion that ‘was auf den Tisch kommt’ is properly only a woman’s concern! John Marsh, Saint John (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1977) p. 144, suggests that ‘the figure of Mary … may be intended to refer … to Judaism, … in whose “womb” Jesus was conceived’, but adds that Jesus was also respectfully declining ‘Mary’s parental guidance and authority’ in favour of his ‘relationship with his heavenly Father’.
M. Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays, trans. A. Bakshy and P. S. Nathan (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959) p. 6.
C. Stanislavski, My Life in Art (New York: Theatre Art Books, 1948) pp. 395–7.
E. Piscator, The Political Theatre (New York: Avon, 1978) pp. 119–20;
cf. C. D. Innes, Erivin Piscator’s Political Theatre (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972) p. 84.
W. Hendriksen, New Testament Commentary: The Gospel of Matthew (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1973) p. 352.
C. E. B. Cranfield, The Gospel According to Saint Mark (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977) p. 172.
J. Frank, ‘Spatial Form in Modern Literature’, in R. W. Stallman (ed.), Critiques and Essays in Criticism (New York: Ronald Press, 1949) p. 322.
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Harris, M. (1990). Time and Space. In: Theater and Incarnation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09697-8_2
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