TY - JOUR
T1 - On Being a Shakespearian Dramatist: An Approach to The Back of Beyond
AU - Rabey, David Ian
PY - 2000/9/1
Y1 - 2000/9/1
N2 - The lack of constant speech is not contempt But silence measures those compelled to speak. What does not change is will to change, they say, Though changes do outrun the will's control. Each person has a story that rolls on Beyond the boundaries of the play in which they're placed, Unless they fall in love at last with limits And try to die into an old play's shape. Not even witches know what happens after, But once I met an actor, wild and broken, Who said, ‘The play is dead: long live the play’, with laughter, Then wept at faces he saw in the bracken.
AB - The lack of constant speech is not contempt But silence measures those compelled to speak. What does not change is will to change, they say, Though changes do outrun the will's control. Each person has a story that rolls on Beyond the boundaries of the play in which they're placed, Unless they fall in love at last with limits And try to die into an old play's shape. Not even witches know what happens after, But once I met an actor, wild and broken, Who said, ‘The play is dead: long live the play’, with laughter, Then wept at faces he saw in the bracken.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84871339744&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S030788330001974X
DO - 10.1017/S030788330001974X
M3 - Article
SN - 0307-8833
VL - 25
SP - 284
EP - 294
JO - Theatre Research International
JF - Theatre Research International
IS - 3
ER -