Horror and humor in medieval and modern drama

• Gil Lazier ^[1]
  1. [1] Columbia University

     Columbia University

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Southern communication journal, ISSN 1041-794X, Vol. 33, nº 4, 1967, págs. 295-307
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This study attempts to disclose a similarity of dramatic techniques occurring in two apparently dissimilar fornts of drama separated chronologically by six hundred years. Specifically the strange juxtaposition of comedy and brutality which seems to be a consistent trait of avant‐garde drama is equally prevalent in medieval dramaturgy. To demonstrate this similitude the writer compares aspects of three modern plays with cognate features from the English medieval mystery cycles. Following this comparison he offers some underlying social and psychological reasons for this recurrence.