Identifying Works of Natural Theater: Serious Plays
Identifying Works of Natural Theater: Serious Plays I have previously offered on these pages a description of the Natural Theater and how it is, as my first article asserted, the antidote to the Theater of Misery (where pessimism, hopelessness, and victimology are the human condition). I have also contended that plays from the classical era, such as “Oedipus Rex,” uniquely speak to American audiences because their playwrights understood how characters are irreversibly subject to natural laws and human nature—the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God,” as Jefferson wrote in the Decla...
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