TİYATRO SOSYOLOJİSİ YOLUYLA YÜZYILLAR ARASI KÖPRÜLER KURMAK: T. S. ELIOT’IN KATEDRALDE CİNAYET OYUNUNDA KAMUSAL ŞİDDETİN SHAKESPEARE TİYATROSU ÜZERİNDEN TAHLİLİ
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2022
Yazarlar: Eren ALKAN
Sosyoloji Dergisi, Uluslararası, 2022
Özet
Violence, as one of the main themes of Western literature, has inevitably been put on the stage and the plays have taken on a task of mirroring violence in the essence of human beings. It is beholden that violence has shaped a good many stories and characters as it can be analyzed in the Elizabethan theatre. At the heart of staging, reflecting, analyzing, and criticizing public violence gradually in the field of theatre, individualism and enlightenment, on the one hand, have developed for centuries in the Western societies on the other hand public order has increased the level of violence on people. Hence, in this study, T. S. Eliot who analyzes the effect of public violence on individuals in modern American drama and takes it in his works, and also discusses various faces of authority and public violence has been examined. As one of the most important authors of 20th century, Eliot has examined the theme of public violence through most theatre techniques; besides, he has made the meeting of audience with the essence of violence possible by using modernist narratives from which he benefited the dynamic structure of Anglo-American drama. Therefore, this study aims at examining and discussing the projection of “public violence” on individual by reflecting the similarities between Shakespearean theatre and Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral (1935). The research method is close descriptive analysis of the play in terms of New Historicism and Psychoanalysis for the effect of public violence on individual often brings sociological and psychological issues directly into question. As the main reference of this study Murder in the Cathedral, it will be discussed how the play reflects zeitgeist that it is written in and how it approaches the effects of public violence on human conscious which is grounded on this zeitgeist with historical backgrounds.