The theater, Dan quite... «A Prayer for Owen Meany»
robot26 октября 2015The theater, Dan quite rightly claims, dramatizes both the experience and the confidence in language that young people - Such as our students-lack. Students of the age of Dan's, and mine, have no great feeling - for example-for wit; wit simply passes them by, or else they take it to be an elderly form of snobbery, a mere showing off with the language that they use (at best) tentatively. Wit isn't tentative; therefore, neither is it young. Wit is one of many aspects of life and literature that is far easier to recognize onstage than in a book. My students are always missing the wit in what they read, or else they do not trust it; onstage, even an amateur actor can make anyone see what wit is.
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