Word: didacticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wesker uses a slice-of-life technique to convey a slice of lifelessness. Small, dun-colored, repetitious detail is ladled out till the audience is saturated in it. There is a certain mild humor in the repetitions, whether of the family's deadness or the offstage boy friend'...
Nickelodeon Sentiment. Although In the Swamp is surrealist in technique, with enigmatic central characters who are symbolic rather than human, the minor figures-rogues all-are marvelously funny and thoroughly human. From this point on, Brecht's plays fork in these two directions: the symbolic-didactic and the raffish...
Non-didactic Peter Quint
The issue opens with a drama by David Cole, En Croisade--the winner of an enterprise called "the first annual ADVOCATE-HDC playwrighting (sic) contest." Mr. Cole has evidently decided that the stage is eminently suited to flippant dialectic: his play does not have characters, but rather attitudes, few actions...
Before examining the nineteenth century stereotypes of the Jew, Rosenberg investigates the rise of the counter-myth of the Jew as Saint. He accounts for the flimsiness of the sainted Jews by searching out the motives of their creators. In Cumberland's The Jew Sheva is the antipode to Shylock...