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ideas
in
a fugue form (rather than as literal assertions), and thereby
necessarily refers beyond the arena of social material and didactic state–
ment. A misunderstanding of the artistic aims implicit in
MaratfSade
because of a narrow vision of the theater :accounts for most of the critics'
dissatisfaction with Weiss's play-an ungrateful dissatisfaction, consider–
ing
the extraordinary richness of the text and of the Brook production.
That the ideas taken up in
MaratfSade
are not resolved,
in
an intellectual
sense, is far less important
~an
the extent
to
which they do work
together
in
the 'Sensory arena.
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