At the Boundary
Was Hamlet mad or wasn’t he? From ~the audience viewpoint it’s largely irrevelant, and I suspect from the author’s too. For, listening to Strind-
berg’s The Father (2YC, February 20), | I realised for the first time that the madness of a character can be the dramatist’s means of shifting gear into a higher dimension of tragic reality, Just as the emotional stresses to which Strindberg’s hero is subjected force a breakout from the normal boundaries of personality, so the overwhelming tragic force of the play cannot be contained in the ordinary envelope of words and breaks free in the transcendental final scene of madness and death. A magnificent play, out-Freuding Freud in its vision of the struggle between sex and sex and generation and generation, and acted by players capable of channelling and concentrating the author’s sense of human agony.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 814, 4 March 1955, Page 11
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145At the Boundary New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 814, 4 March 1955, Page 11
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