Different Readings (2 Viewers)

[brunette]

ok i was just wondering is someone could clear a few bits and pieces up for me

1. Is Peter Brook's 1962 production a family drama and his 1970 extenitialsit>
2. What is extentialist??
3. Finlat's CUT Theatre production...is that family???
4. is Stuart McDowells (rewrite of Tate's) a marxist interpretation?
5. And whats the easiest definition of marxist?

If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated!!

'm finally understanding some of this play YAY!!!

 

[kimmeh]

Existentialism : http://www.sosu.edu/al/ehl/pallen/Exist.htm

 

[grk_styl]

Brook's 1962 production is a nihilistic reading

For definitions and explanations of readings, just search in google

 

[nessie_lee]

Marxism is the conflict theory, it's got something to do with it anyway...

 

[shazzam]

err yeah dude marxist ideology only came into existence in the late 19th century. Tate's version was popular in the 17th-18th century.
Also CUT theatre production (Queen Lere) is DEFINITELY a feminist reading

 

[Sarah168]

DEFINITION OF MARXIST CRITICISM



Marxist criticism is a type of criticism in which literary works are viewed as the product of work and whose practitioners emphasize the role of class and ideology as they reflect, propagate, and even challenge the prevailing social order. Rather than viewing texts as repositories for hidden meanings, Marxist critics view texts as material products to be understood in broadly historical terms. In short, literary works are viewed as a product of work (and hence of the realm of production and consumption we call economics).

 

[angelduck]

Brooks one is also absurdist (the nihilistic one)

 

[brunette]

i meant the 2002 cut theatre one...not queen lere (never saw that one)

 

[shazzam]

well, okay if you meant the one at bondi pavillion with the very weird Albany then that was a political reading, to quote the director I spoke with before the play.
Hence the gunshots, the news broadcasts, and Lear's speech in Act 1 scene i.
when all the journalists came.