How Grief is the Thing with Feathers brought me catharsis

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As Cillian Murphy stars in Enda Walsh's stage adaptation of the novel by Max Porter, Douglas Greenwood reflects on how, since his own mother's death, grief and imagination have always been intrinsically tied

Calderon's play is one of the masterpieces of the Spanish Golden Age. The predicament of the young prince, Segismundo, calls to mind the Chinese sage's story of the man who dreams he is a butterfly and wakes to wonder whether he is actually a butterfly dreaming he is a man. This youth is at the mercy of political fluctuation: he's been imprisoned in a dark tower from birth because of a horoscope that predicted he would usurp the throne.

 

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