From Macbeth to Macbett
1972; University of Toronto Press; Volume: 15; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3138/md.15.2.231
ISSN1712-5286
Autores Tópico(s)Irish and British Studies
Resumo"THE TITLE OF MY PLAY has two t's so that people won't get it confused with that of Shakespeare's, familiar, I imagine, to a good many." When interviewed, Ionesco the Prankster — he who enjoys saying that he belongs to "the cabaret school of literature" — is sure to make his entrance. The author of Macbett, however, though still in command of his great sense of humor, is a serious political thinker. Like Picasso's drawings based on Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe, Macbett is art on art. Yet the aesthetic aspect here is, if not forgotten, transcended. Politics is lonesco's concern in his latest play, as it was in Rhinoceros, but whereas in the latter the playwright presented a monstrous happening, a moment of savagery, of regression to the beast in the development of civilization, the present play deals with the relentless, cyclic return of destruction, the playing and the playing out of political ambition.
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