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To Dazzle as Macbeth: Bisociated Drama in Philip Roth's "The Humbling"
Ist Teil von
Comparative drama, 2012-04, Vol.46 (1), p.1-16
Ort / Verlag
Kalamazoo, Mich: Department of English, Western Michigan University
Erscheinungsjahr
2012
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Literature Online (LION)
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In The Humbling, Axler is nonetheless personally versed in any number of dramatic works, among which are Oedipus the King, Antigone, Death of a Salesman, The Iceman Cometh, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear.4 O'Neill's A Long Day's Journey into Night is also a reference point for Axler, who at times fancies himself playing James Tyrone, Sr., an actor who has botched his domestic life and squandered his creative powers after a career of limited, though lucrative, stage roles. Axler does, after all, feel sexually triumphant over Dean Renner: "it could not be easy for the loser to stand there and confront the person who had won" (Humbling, 87). [...]what at first appears to be Renner's impertinent and contemptuous question-"'Do you want to seduce me too?