Monday, April 4, 2011

3/22, 3/29, & 3/31 - Class Notes

- 4 last plays Cymbeline, Winters Tale, Pericles, and the Tempest

  • Shakespeare made a wrong turn after Antony and Cleopatra?
  • Leaves behind comedies, history, and tragedies for what?
  • Experimenting and exploiting genres
- Romance: typical adventure beginning at birth, captured by pirates, separation of people leads to eventual reunion
  • Fools transformed in romances
- What can the imagination accomplish?

- "Cymbeline"
  • Evil queen step-mother
  • myth of the flower
- "Pericles" 
  • Seems longer, more expansion, more going on
  • Helicanus the fool
  • Consuming myth - Persephone, Hades, and Dimeter
  • line 189 "remade me though I made you" Pericles to Marina.
-"Tempest"
  • Shakespeare's mystery play
  • myth of mother and daughter
-Women knowing and not telling, men telling and not knowing

- Repetition of patience

-"Winter's Tale"
  • People talking about revelations vs being there
    • distance hinder or help understanding 
  • Who dwelt by the church yard? 
    • Echoes to Leontes
- What do Imogen, Marina, Perdita, and Miranda have in common?
  • May reveal nature of four last plays

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