- Read Northrop Frye, The Argument of Comedy
Notes
- The Green World:
- Tendency for dramatists to use woods for sanctuary from a city
- Consumed by nature or renewed by denizens of it.
- Winter's Tale
- Famous exit pursued by a bear
- Agents of metamorphosis: bear, horse, lion, boar
- Brother Battle
- Cain and Abel (Rational vs Irrational)
- Act I
- Edges of the woods
- hints of Theseus' affairs
- Hippolyta a war prize
- Displaced Myth: all literature traced to a mythological backgrounds
- Comedy
- Senex always gives in
- Spirit of comedy the spirit of youth
- A symbolism of coming together
- Bottom's speech pg. 278: parody of St. Paul's 1st letter to the Corinthians
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