Tennessee Williamsと1960年代実験的演劇としてのThe Two-Character Play
別タイトル
Tennessee Williams and the 1960s The Two-Character Play as an Experimental Play
著者
山野,敬士
(YAMANO,Keishi)
別府大学文学部
出版地
別府
出版者
別府大学会
日付
出版年
: -
作成日
:
更新日
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記録日
: 2011-02-25
上位タイトル
別府大学紀要
(Memoirs of Beppu university).
No.46
(2005.
02)
,p.1-
11
識別番号
ISSN
02864983
抄録
The aim of this paper is to observe how Tennessee Williams's plays changed through the 1960s mainly by examining anti-realistic descriptions in The Two-Character Play (1967). First, we will discuss Williams's plays in the 40s and the 50s by comparing them with American "realism" and "family" plays. In addition, the South, which Williams had always been conscious of trying to describe in his plays, is employed to analyze the difference between his earlier plays and later ones. Next, we will suppose that anti-realistic aspects in Williams's later plays are caused by metaphysical atmosphere as well as unrealistic descriptions in the plays. Finally, we will conclude that anti-realistic aspects that the use of self-referential languages and the structure of "meta-theater" in The Two-Character Play create can make the play unique to the extent that we can call it post-modernistic plays, and that the aspects will ironically cause the play to lose the diversity, which the play should have maintained in the 1960s.
