Yeats’s The Herne’s Egg and the Theory of Comedy
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For this study, Yeats’s play is read with Henri Bergson’s theory of humor and laughter. Despite all his great accomplishments as a hero, the play’s protagonist Congal, violating the sacred and disgracing the values set up by the holy Herne, makes the greatest error in his life. Yeats uses certain patterns to provoke laughter, placing idiosyncratic interactions between characters and using effective dramatic and poetic technique to divert audience’s attention from the dark mood Congal and his men’s rape of Attracta could render. The strategic construction of his comedy produces a great comic effect.
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For this study, Yeats’s play is read with Henri Bergson’s theory of humor and laughter. Despite all his great accomplishments as a hero, the play’s protagonist Congal, violating the sacred and disgracing the values set up by the holy Herne, makes the greatest error in his life. Yeats uses certain patterns to provoke laughter, placing idiosyncratic interactions between characters and using effective dramatic and poetic technique to divert audience’s attention from the dark mood Congal and his men’s rape of Attracta could render. The strategic construction of his comedy produces a great comic effect.
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