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The Great Retreat and Other Plays scrap

The Great Retreat

  • Author(s)

    Lee Gunsam이근삼

  • Translator(s)

  • Publisher

    Homa&SekeyHoma&Sekey

  • Country

    UNITED STATES

  • Language

    English(English)

  • Year Published

    2013

  • Target User

  • Period

Description 작품 소개

This selection of plays offers an overview of Lee Gun-sam’s attempts to portray the socially-underprivileged people’s ‘heroic’ struggle to assert their human dignity in a society swarming with time-serving snobs and hypocrites. Lee Gun-sam’s heartstring was always attached to those who remain honest to themselves and fight for their moral principles. His favorite characters, without exception, are those who adhere to the values they cherish, living in a world that asks for compromise and self-suppression for survival. The protagonists in his plays are neither ‘tragic’ nor ‘comic’: they traverse the borderline between the two realms, stereotyped by dramatic convention. Each of them looms as an everyman-figure: he or she can be any of us. As the main character in The Last Performance of an Old Actor bids farewell to his audience, we realize that his real grand ‘performance’ was not on the man-made stage that he has lived for, but on the stage of life, as all of us must. Reference : Homa&Sekey. "The Great Retreat and Other Plays", http://www.homabooks.com/eBookstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7_10_14_21&products_id=2455. accessed 24 Oct 2023.

Author Bio 작가 소개

Lee Gunsam

Lee Gunsam이근삼

This selection of plays offers an overview of Lee Gun-sam’s attempts to portray the socially-underprivileged people’s ‘heroic’ struggle to assert their human dignity in a society swarming with time-serving snobs and hypocrites. Lee Gun-sam’s heartstring was always attached to those who remain honest to themselves and fight for their moral principles. His favorite characters, without exception, are those who adhere to the values they cherish, living in a world that asks for compromise and self-suppression for survival. The protagonists in his plays are neither ‘tragic’ nor ‘comic’: they traverse the borderline between the two realms, stereotyped by dramatic convention. Each of them looms as an everyman-figure: he or she can be any of us. As the main character in The Last Performance of an Old Actor bids farewell to his audience, we realize that his real grand ‘performance’ was not on the man-made stage that he has lived for, but on the stage of life, as all of us must. Reference : Homa&Sekey. "The Great Retreat and Other Plays", http://www.homabooks.com/eBookstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7_10_14_21&products_id=2455. accessed 24 Oct 2023.

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