Third Person Omniscient (via Cabaret)
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Cabaret (1998 Broadway Revival)
Second, those of you who follow me on on Twitter might have noticed that my latest musical obsession is Cabaret, and specifically the 1998 Broadway revival of it. (But can you blame me? Alan Cumming is divine.) There are many reasons I’ve fallen hard for this play, not the least of which is because I have a slight obsession with the Weimar Republic, Der Blaue Engel, and the German language.
Anyway. I don’t intend to talk (much) about Cabaret. Today I wanted to talk about POVs in writing, and specifically I would like to offer a defense for the use of third person omniscient, the poor, unloved child in the POV family.
