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Hey folks! how are you? I hope so fine.
I'm thinking about Drama as a genre. I'm reading "Drama from Ibsen to Eliot", by Raymond Williams. Do you know? So, apparently he said that a play can be good in the trial of criticism, but at the same time does not have a text literary good, I mean, a great text in the eyes of literary criticism. That makes sense to you? Did I understand what Williams meant?
In [1, Introduction (ii), p. 13], Raymond Williams wrote:
In the following pages, the statement is explained. Could you clarify what exactly you would like to discuss?Quote:
“Few people see any need for literary criticism of the drama […]. It is assumed, very widely, that the value of a play has not necessarily anything to do with its literary value; it is held, and firmly asserted, that a play can quite commonly be good, without at the same time being good literature.”
Reference:
[1] WILLIAMS, RAYMOND, Drama from Ibsen to Eliot, 3rd Impression, London, Chatto & Windus, 1961.