Class Notes February 17, 2011

• Review on Tuesday
• everyone needs to bring at least 1 multiple choice for the exam
• needs to be relevant questions
• All Well That Ends Well
• most vilified of all Shakespeare plays
• progressively less mythical
• still possesses the Green World & the Golden Age
• Myth-folklore-historical epic-history
• process is present in every culture
• literature becomes progressively more realistic
• As You Like It
• Check out Ashley's blog
• Try and put the most interesting sentence as the 1st sentence in your next blog
• Blogs to check out
• John Orsi's blog
• James' blog
• Roberto's blog
• Nick's blog
• Lisa's blog
• Keat & Gates
• Ted Hughes
• pages 130-180 read carefully if using as secondary source
• feet & sives
• Northrop Frye
• "All literature is displaced myth"
• Anton chekof
• Russian
• short stories
• The Wood Imp
• took out all mythology
• just left realistic aspects
• we are to do the opposite: see what myths are there: insert them into the stories/recognize them
• Helena
• hero
• different because she is a woman hero (heroine)
• one of the reasons this play is so unpopular
• AWTEW
• begins with marriage instead of ends with it
• Shakespeare is playing with the dynamics of how traditional stories take place
• Shakespeare
• experiments with the consuming myth
• Ugly duckling plays
• Titanus & Adonis
• Pericles
• Trilus & Cressida
• Helena
• almost divine
• healing power
• Mother Goddess
• mother/maiden/crone
• triple form
• Lafew
• fire
• mythological/alchemy
• alchemy is purification of the soul
• catastrophe
• unique shaking effect
• Shakespeare's signature
• 2 nouns linked by an "and"
• sometimes 2 adjectives
• directly contrasting noun
• confusing odd metaphors
• turn towards the end
• generally disasterous
• Double language
• been baptized in mythology
• overthought/underthought
• Frye
• producing an image that couldn't be misunderstood
• plants seed in youths' minds