Monday, February 14, 2011

2/1 & 2/3 Class Notes

Homework


- 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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