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Theatrical Perception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

B. Beckerman
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The theory of literature expounded by Rene Wellek and Austin Warren in 1942 embraces, if somewhat gingerly, the drama. The authors acknowledge – in the apparent afterthought of an endnote – that ‘the whole tendency of dramaturgic doctrine is against any judgment of a play divorced from … its stagecraftness or theaterness’. But in the body of their work, they treat drama as one form of narrative fiction, at one point approaching and then retreating from any substantial consideration of the ‘distinction between play and story’.

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Theatre Research International , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , May 1979 , pp. 157 - 171
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1979

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Notes

1. Wellek, Rene and Warren, Austin, A Theory of Literature (New York: 1942), p. 339, n. 18.Google Scholar

2. ibid., p. 238.

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