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People enjoy tragedy because they are culprits, Eric Bentley contended last . They identify the guilt of a tragic hero with their own. "In tragedy we the most single-minded and complete identification with guilt of any art soever...
...only an angel, but also a" the critic said in his next to last Charles Eliot Norton lecture. He described melodrama and farce--the "lower" dramatic forms--as "childish," while and comedy are more "grown-up." "The high forms can be distinguished the low by a respect for reality," Bentley maintained...
...this reason, tragedy is an "explora- the morbid," and a "disturbance" as an outlet for guilt. Shake tragedy, Bentley said, "finds soft in human nature. It is Macbeth, Chatterly's Lover, that should from the mails...
...other hand, is "not too in tragedy," Bentley maintained. are voluptuous, and drama can't too much voluptuousness. The stop so that the play...
...whole, "the aftertaste of tragedy disturbance untranscended," Bentley : "Tragedy implies disorder and and its order comes only through struction of the play. "The only which the poet can set up against is an aesthetic one created...