Iris Murdoch Quotes About Theatre

Quotes about: Theatre

• The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.

  Iris Murdoch

  Magic, Theatre, Wonderful

• I think the novel is essentially a comic form (tragedy is for the theatre), not meaning by that full of jokes, but that it is about the absurd detail of human life, the way in which one cannot fully understand what is happening. Life is muddle and jumble and ends inconclusively, and when this is presented with great comic art the sorrows of human life can be truthfully conveyed; one is moved by the spectacle, and feels that something truthful has been told in a magic way.

  Iris Murdoch

  Art, Thinking, Magic

• The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.

  Iris Murdoch

  Theatre, Tragic, Parting

  Iris Murdoch (2013). “The Green Knight”, p.58, Open Road Media

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