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It’s an example of anagnorisis, the recognition of a character’s true nature, a literary device reaching back to Oedipus and beyond.

To make that point, Mr. Hall said the play had to end with Beale undergoing “a moment of anagnorisis” — some final realization about the truth of his experience.

That’s because we have reached that key theatrical moment, which Aristotle famously called “anagnorisis” or “recognition.”