Δύο πνευματικοί πυγμαλίωνες στο θέατρο του Γ. Τσοκόπουλου και του Μ. Βάλσα
Part of : Παράβασις : επιστημονικό περιοδικό Τμήματος Θεατρικών Σπουδών Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών ; Vol.2, No.1, 1998, pages 55-64
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Two Pygmalions in the theatre of G. Tsokopoulos and M. Valsas
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Μελέτες και άρθρα
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The writer of the article proposes a comparative analysis of the two main male characters in the plays «Blondes!...brunettes!» by Georgios Tsokopoulos (1870-1923) and «Hurt Souls» by Mimis Valsas (c. 1880-c. 1960). Both plays, appeared in 1917, deal with the theme of Pygmalion developed in the life style and views of two intellectuals that act as dogmatic «educators» of two young women. Both are trying to form the women's character and behavior following their liberal principles which collapse in both cases with their final rejection by the women. In the play of Tsokopoulos the man is driven to suicide after the woman’s denial to having a relationship with him and in the play of Valsas the whole system of his ideas is reversed since the woman after having an affair with another man shows him the impossibility to act following his so much advertised ideas. The article is part of a work in progress concerning M. Valsas, an aenigmatic figure, who produced an important number of plays and a history of the modern Greek theatre recently translated by C. Bakonikola-Ghéorghopoulou in modern Greek (see also her article on his esthetic theory in Parabasis 1).
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δραματουργία
