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The thief was arrested and imprisoned; but the peripety for her was less terrible than for her husband, who had married her in chivalrous faith in her innocence. Would it have been or may it some day prove to be possible to transfer this "well-made" drama of real life bodily to the stage? I am inclined to think not.
At the same time, the bare fact of the sudden and tremendous peripety is irresistibly dramatic; and Mr. Henry Arthur Jones has admitted that it suggested to him the great scene of the unmasking of Felicia Hindemarsh in Mrs. Dane's Defence. It is instructive to note the delicate adjustment which Mr. Jones found necessary in order to adapt the theme to dramatic uses.
No completer case of anagnorisis and peripeteia could well be conceived whatever we may have to say of the means by which it is led up to. Has the conception of the peripety, as an almost obligatory element in drama, any significance for the modern playwright?
One does not know whether to praise Mr. Sheldon for having adroitly avoided an anticlimax, or to reproach him with having unblushingly shirked a difficulty. To my sense, the play has somewhat the air of a hexameter line with the spondee cut off. One does want to see the peripety through. But if the audience is content to imagine the sequel, Mr.
The moral peripety the sudden dissipation of some illusion, or defeat of some imposture, or crumbling of some castle in the air is a no less characteristic incident of real life, and much more amenable to the playwright's uses. Certainly there are few things more impressive in drama than to see a man or woman or a man and woman come upon the stage, radiant, confident, assured that
The Discovery, then, being of persons, it may be that of one party only to the other, the latter being already known; or both the parties may have to discover themselves. Iphigenia, for instance, was discovered to Orestes by sending the letter; and another Discovery was required to reveal him to Iphigenia. Two parts of the Plot, then, Peripety and Discovery, are on matters of this sort.
Perhaps the most striking peripety in Ibsen is Stockmann's fall from jubilant self-confidence to defiant impotence in the third act of An Enemy of the People.
There are four distinct species of Tragedy that being the number of the constituents also that have been mentioned: first, the complex Tragedy, which is all Peripety and Discovery; second, the Tragedy of suffering, e.g. the Ajaxes and Ixions; third, the Tragedy of character, e.g. The Phthiotides and Peleus.
Jones raised a real and fairly sufficient obstacle between his lovers, without rendering his heroine entirely unsympathetic, or presenting her in the guise of a bewildering moral anomaly. Thirdly, he transferred the scene of the peripety from a court of justice, with its difficult adjuncts and tedious procedure, to the private study of a great lawyer. At the opening of the scene between Mrs.
But the form most directly connected with the Plot and the action of the piece is the first-mentioned. This, with a Peripety, will arouse either pity or fear actions of that nature being what Tragedy is assumed to represent; and it will also serve to bring about the happy or unhappy ending.
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