Mock-Heroic
O hear al] five cantos of ihe Kape of the Lock from 2YC in the same evening was an appreciable, and appreciated, piece of programme planning, The poem was read with gusto rather than sublety by Peter Jackson; his | technique was most effective in blowing | from our minds any dust or suggestion | ef antique mould that may have settled | en us from contact with library ver- | sions of the classic. (The pause before | the "He said" at the end of each "epic" speech came with devastatingly comic | effect). But I felt it was a method that, by too little variation in pace,
rather blurred the fine | edge of the parody. It was undeviatingly mockheroic, epic as the Player King, rather than Hemlet, would have ren-
dered it.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 759, 5 February 1954, Page 11
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130Mock-Heroic New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 759, 5 February 1954, Page 11
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