Class Notes January 27, 2011

• Ran
• movie
• King Lear
• version of it
• The Bottom Translation
• Prepubestescent boys often played women
• may have been called
• Murial Rukeyser
• Ted Hughes "stole" from her
• The Traces of Thomas Harriot
• Act IV.2.81
• 2nd part of Henry the 6th
• "kill lawyers...kill all the books.." English teachers are the first to die
• Sonnets
• Breeding Sonnets
• encourages a young man to marry and have children
• commissioned by the man's parents
• by putting someone in a piece of work that person become immortal
• stops talking about babies in Sonnet 15 and focuses on immortality
• MIND BABIES
• make us immortal
• Mid Summer's Night Dream
• Does it have anything to do with myth?
• based on Greek myth
• names
• Theseus &  Hippolyta
• Think of Shakespeare's plays as jig saw puzzles
• they all go together somehow
• every play is a version of every other play
• Tempest
• everybody is an anagram of everyone else
• Outskirts
• wood
• get into trouble
• trouble, insanity, lunacy
• Tempest
• punishment had to carry wood
• wooed
• "was woman in this manner ever wooed?"
• uses three times in different plays
• Titus & Adonis
• Richard the 3rd
• myth
• darkness lurking but not given by Shakespeare
• keeps it out of the context and allows the audience to distinguish between the play and myth
• Joseph
• Theseus & Apallatus myth
• accuses step-son of rape
• mythical background of a Mid Summer's Night Dream
• Levels of myth in a Mid Summer's Night Dream
• People of wood governed by the moon levels 1 & 2
• 1
• Titania & Oberon
• primary level
• 2
• Puck & fairies
• 1b
• folk mythology
• Realistic levels 3,4,&5
• 3
• Theseus & Hippolyta
• 4
• 4 lovers
• Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, Helena
• 5
• Rude Mechanicals
• Page 260
• line 141-149
• impressive speech for Lysander
• similar to Juliet