Oedipa Maas watches a performance of the play
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"Oedipa Maas watches a performance of the play" refers to the pivotal scene in Thomas Pynchon's novel *The Crying of Lot 49* in which the protagonist attends a staging of the fictional Jacobean revenge tragedy *The Courier’s Tragedy*, triggering her deeper involvement in the novel’s central conspiracy.
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictionalEvent
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literaryScene ⓘ |
| appearsInChapterOf | The Crying of Lot 49 (early chapters) ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Tristero
NERFINISHED
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secretPostalSystem ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Oedipa Maas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasGenreContext | postmodernFiction ⓘ |
| hasInterpretation |
allegoryOfTextualIndeterminacy
ⓘ
commentaryOnInformationOverload ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryPeriod | postwarAmericanLiterature ⓘ |
| hasMedium | novel ⓘ |
| hasPublicationContext | The Crying of Lot 49 first published 1966 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSetting | theatrePerformance ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
ambiguityOfReality
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conspiracy ⓘ interpretationOfSigns NERFINISHED ⓘ metafiction ⓘ paranoia ⓘ |
| hasWorkAuthor | Thomas Pynchon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| illustrates | playWithinAPlayDevice ⓘ |
| includesWork | The Courier’s Tragedy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includesWorkType | fictionalJacobeanRevengeTragedy ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
incitingIncidentForConspiracyPlot
ⓘ
turningPointInOedipaInvestigation ⓘ |
| partOf | The Crying of Lot 49 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precedes | Oedipa Maas search for Tristero symbols ⓘ |
| relatedWork | The Crying of Lot 49 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| triggers | Oedipa Maas deeper involvement in Tristero conspiracy ⓘ |
| usedAs | embeddedTextWithinText ⓘ |
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