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T. S. 엘리엇의 운문극 다시 보기 - 『 비서 』와 『 원로 정치인 』
Re-viewing T. S. Eliot's Verse Drama : The Confidential Clerk and The Elder Statesman
정문영(Moon Young Chung)
UCI I410-ECN-0102-2009-840-006446995

The Confidential Clerk and The Elder Statesman are Eliot`s last two works which conclude a series of verse drama written during his life time. He had insisted that the bonds of woman have to be dissolved for the salvation of the protagonist`s soul because she embodied the danger of man`s own sensory desire. But in the last two plays, especially the final play Eliot surprisingly presents a new view of woman which is very different from the denial of the love of women in his first verse drama of Sweeny Agonistes. This seemingly abrupt change which is neither sudden nor inexplicable makes us re-view Eliot`s verse drama. Eliot and his critics have consciously tried to reduce his play to the Oedipal scenario by disregarding the gaps within the texts which lead to the another stage of anti-Oedipal scenario, i.e., the "Other Scene" of the unconscious of the text. But Eliot in his last plays comes to bring back the repressed women in his life and in his texts on the stage, while re-viewing his accomplishments of verse drama. The critical reviews on the two plays are divided into the two extremely opposite evaluations according to ways to handle the gaps within the texts. we can find the appropriate perspective of evaluating two plays and the whole accomplishments of Eliot`s verse drama by focusing on and analyzing the gaps, instead of compromising and assimilating them into the Oedipal scenario. For this perspective which can see the gaps within the text, Deleuze and Gattari`s familism and anti-Oedipus and Lacan`s reading of Hamlet can be appropriated. From this perspective The two plays can be regarded as parodies of both verse drama and prose drama. Eliot appropriates certain aspects of the high-comedy (prose drama) tradition (the plot of the foundling child), and he also appropriates conventions of classical verse drama, for example, the adequate use of ritual and myth as a paradigm for his theatre which anticipates a postmodern experimental theatre. In this light, we can evaluate Eliot`s verse drama in terms of the history of modern theatre, by Finding out techniques and themes that foreshadow those of our contemporary leading dramatists.

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