2006
DOI: 10.3138/tric.27.2.289
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Canadian Theatre and the Tragic Experience of Evil

Abstract: This essay examines the relevance of the tragic account of evil for Canadian theatre in the shadow of the contemporary "war on terror." It concentrates on two important aspects of the ancient Greek depiction of evil in tragedy: (1) that no agent, human or divine, is either absolutely good or absolutely evil; and (2) that evil, understood as the experience of dread, cannot be exterminated but can, at best, be kept within limits. In other words, the tragic account of evil is neither"melodramatic" nor"eschatologi… Show more

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