Sarrazac, Jean-Pierre

La Pièce et l'Épilogue. À propos de Brand, Peer Gynt, John Gabriel Borkman et Quand nous nous r - 2008.


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In the itinerant dramas of the 1860s – that reminds us of the “life’s pilgrimage” in medieval morality plays – or in the search of a concise, purified and static form, the “dramatic epilog”, Ibsen’s dramaturgy is part of an essential dramaturgic mutation : the passage at the end of the 19th century from the “drama in life” to the “drama of life”, that is a drama that summarizes an entire, although wasted life.