THTR 1020 Chapter : Barthes World Of Wrestling
Document Summary
The virtue of ;i)j~h: wrestling is thru it is the s|pectacje_cf . excess, Hera we find a grandiloquence which must have been flint of undent theatres. Greek drama a 3~bull- fight>;: in both, a light with. out shadow"" gcaerates, an emotion without reserve. There are peoph who think thai wrestling is an ignoble sport, Wrestling is not ;i sport, it is a spectacle, and it js no more ignoble to attend,, a _wresriedpcrformari< pi" suffering than a | performance of the sorrows of arnplphe p " andrornaquc. * of course, there exists a )! wteslhng, in winch the participants unnecessarily go to great lengi. hs r. a make a show of a fair fight; this is of no interest. True wrestling, wrongly called amateur wrestling, is performed in second-rate halls, where the public spontaneously attunes itself to tic spectacular nature of the contest, hie thi; audeena: at a suburban cinenu.
