Film poster for The Heart of the Matter (1953)
AQA (A) Literature: ‘The struggle for identity in modern literature’ (wider reading)
Philip Martin used the phrase ‘The theatre of the mind’ to describe Byron’s poem Manfred, and it aptly expresses the nature of the reading experience that Greene’s work offers us. The novels operate as narratives — sometimes filmic, sometimes morality plays or Jonsonian comedies of ‘humours’ (based on fixed dramatic types representing different facets of human psychology, named for the dramatist Ben Jonson).
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