@article{ART001218768},
author={한상옥},
title={Narrators in Shaffer's Memory Plays: Dysart, Salieri and Helen},
journal={Journal of Modern English Drama},
issn={1226-3397},
year={2007},
volume={20},
number={3},
pages={177-204}
TY - JOUR
AU - 한상옥
TI - Narrators in Shaffer's Memory Plays: Dysart, Salieri and Helen
JO - Journal of Modern English Drama
PY - 2007
VL - 20
IS - 3
PB - 한국현대영미드라마학회
SP - 177
EP - 204
SN - 1226-3397
AB - Han, Sang OkEquus, Amadeus and The Gift of the Gorgon are Shaffer's memory plays. There are a pair of contrastive characters in each of the three plays, who are its central figures. One of each pair is a narrator and the other is his/her object of observation. Dysart, Salieri and Helen are the narrators. This study aims to clarify that Shaffer makes the separate worlds of the plays unique with the different uses of the narrator. I focused my attention on three issues in each play which were interrelatedly discussed. They are as follows: First, the individualities of both the narrator and his/her object of observation, and their relationship; Second, their mutual influence on each other's life; Third, the relationship between the narrator and the audience.Shaffer develops the themes more clearly through these narrators. As the inner conflicts of Dysart and Salieri are the major ones of Equus and Amadeus, their monologues make the theatre audience observe them as well as their objects of observation. On the other hand as Helen's inner conflict is not central and she is not provided a monologue, the audience is in a position to observe only her object of observation, that is, Edward. Shaffer also makes efficient use of the onstage audience or the chorus in order to enable the theatre audience to have more balanced viewpoints on the three pairs. The role of Philip who is the onstage audience of The Gift of the Gorgon has been enlarged by comparison with that of Hesther in Equus. Furthermore, not only making the relationship between Helen and Edward the most mutually influential but also using the way how the theatricality of life is highlighted through their marriage life, Shaffer has created The Gift of the Gorgon the play in which the theme and the technique are combined more harmoniously than the other two plays.
KW - Shaffer;narrator;audience;Equus;Amadeus;The Gift of the Gorgon
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한상옥. (2007). Narrators in Shaffer's Memory Plays: Dysart, Salieri and Helen. Journal of Modern English Drama, 20(3), 177-204.
한상옥. 2007, "Narrators in Shaffer's Memory Plays: Dysart, Salieri and Helen", Journal of Modern English Drama, vol.20, no.3 pp.177-204.
한상옥 "Narrators in Shaffer's Memory Plays: Dysart, Salieri and Helen" Journal of Modern English Drama 20.3 pp.177-204 (2007) : 177.
한상옥. Narrators in Shaffer's Memory Plays: Dysart, Salieri and Helen. 2007; 20(3), 177-204.
한상옥. "Narrators in Shaffer's Memory Plays: Dysart, Salieri and Helen" Journal of Modern English Drama 20, no.3 (2007) : 177-204.
한상옥. Narrators in Shaffer's Memory Plays: Dysart, Salieri and Helen. Journal of Modern English Drama, 20(3), 177-204.
한상옥. Narrators in Shaffer's Memory Plays: Dysart, Salieri and Helen. Journal of Modern English Drama. 2007; 20(3) 177-204.
한상옥. Narrators in Shaffer's Memory Plays: Dysart, Salieri and Helen. 2007; 20(3), 177-204.
한상옥. "Narrators in Shaffer's Memory Plays: Dysart, Salieri and Helen" Journal of Modern English Drama 20, no.3 (2007) : 177-204.
