Fabula Rustici or THE BUMPKIN PLAY

<p>What is truth and what is fiction? In this optimistic play of uncertain origin Goobet enquires into the nature of truth encountering a range of philosophical characters who happen to be passing by the village green. The play is upbuilding for Goobet an unlettered bumpkin but also for us in our own day. It turns out that a walkynge-trewth is one that is lived and performed in real time rather than statically mirrored which means that our work of reading is implicated in the general <em>afflatus</em> with which the play concludes. In this troubling epoch of slydyrnesse and (f)flottys-fact in which we stumble in the shadow of blind gods Goobet's guileless uncovering of the vanity of human claims to certainty at the same time as revealing a higher or vertical truth which we cannot but inhabit is an encouragement to us all.</p>