PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Eliza, Waste Collector, Dialectic
14 Sep 2020
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Edwardian reflection on victorian theme (a monumental long period of literary history). He is trying to improve society on reflecting on victorian values: Deference (idea of knowing your place and looking up. Socialist playwright change and improve the world. Ibsen: realist: brecht: challenged notion of realist theatre as unutterably bourgeon. Small japanese woman at the door" its all for the reader. Theatre has to read supposed to yield its meaning to the audience. He cant be a policeman he"s a gentleman, look at his boots! etc. Composed out of surfaces e. g. flats, standing in for walls. Composed out of speech e. g. concern with the way speech has force in the theatre. It is also a play about speech itself how people talk. Insider outside relation with the english class system (irish). Concerned with the way in which class is used implicitly and institutionally as a way of supressing and repressing them: not to do with money e. g. eynsonfields.
