Again, yet another 'breakthrough'. Although, at the rate I'm going, I'll be breaking windows before I get any writing done. Setting the outline has been a nightmare, since I have chapters 2 through 6 set in concrete, or maybe carved in marble, but have been wrestling like Jacob at the Jabbok with chapter 1.
Chapter One sets up the whole project. Chapter One sets the course, the direction, the tone and the tenor of what I'm going to be working on for the next four years. Chapter One introduces the concepts of 'pastoral' and 'dramaturgy'. Chapter One is the first impression. Chapter One is IT!
How will I begin, which pastoring or dramaturgy? Will the chapter be about preaching, sermons, dramaturgy, or the work of pastoring? Which order to the items need to be in? Introductory items first working toward a conclusion or concluding items first and then show the rest as evidence, as if in a trial?
While I'm still not sure about evidence or introductory material first, I am, finally and thankfully and limpingly certain that Chapter One will be focused on the call to enhance the richness of sermons: "Enhancing Salubrity - A Pastoral-Dramaturgical Vocation".
May the muses speak, the floodgates open, and the words just simply flow onto the screen.
As a young man, Ibsen bought Peer Gynt from a starving poet and set
himself up as a pretender to being a playwright. Then, in Germany, he
was killed in a bar fight, and a group of young German writers wrote
his plays for a while as a joke, eventually hiring an out-of-work
actor to impersonate him. My book will decode all of the jokes the
playwrights wrote into the plays in code, though anyone can tell Peer
Gynt was written by a different author than the one who wrote Hedda
Gabler. Further stylistic analysis, date comparisons and research will
be provided. See the upcoming TV special.
We have established that more than one writer wrote Ibsen's plays, and
will reveal our data more completely in the book. However, as can be
seen clearly from the style of language Ibsen used, one of the writers
(called "Ibsen 4" in the study) is clearly speaks danish fluently.
And, we believe there is a case that Ibsen 4 was the dramaturg for the
group, engineering the plots and mechanics of the plays. To reveal one
exciting finding of the study, it is clear that the cabal of
playwrights who actually wrote so-called Ibsen's works were women.
certainly, any reasonable person will not find it odd that a woman in
that oppressed day and age would both write "Hedda Gabler" and be
unable to publish it because of the repression of her gender.
Posted by: Billy Yam | April 19, 2010 at 07:02 AM