#a genre of catharsis: it allows the audience to look fully upon the worst rather than (as one often does or must in life) avoiding it
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Wayne Koestenbaum, Humiliation (2011)
#king lear#shakespeare#tragedies#analysis#wayne koestenbaum#x.#'the consolation of aftermath' gets near to part of the fascination of the genre for me#a genre of catharsis: it allows the audience to look fully upon the worst rather than (as one often does or must in life) avoiding it#in watching a tragedy the audience has no power to avert the worst. but in exchange for that there is the catharsis of realising it in full
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