Class Notes January 10, 2011

• The Argument of Comedy: Northrop Frye
• James has it linked to his blog
• expanded version
• Feb. 26th
• Professor Minton
• taking a group of students to Sam Shepard's  True West @ Equinox Theatre: 8 p.m.
• talk to Andrew with questions
• $5
• Feb. 24th 
• Why is a Guru like a desk?
• John Orsi is starting a book club
• Blog for Tuesday
• In what way does myth operate in As You Like It
• concord in discord
• concord in stratification of people socially
• Comedy 
• wants to include everyone
• our class is an example
• Dante
• Divine Comedy
• comedy: reconciliation: all elements
• Tragedy
• emphasizes the individual
• The argument of Comedy
• cite last sentence for the test on the 24th
• read by the 24th
• What is the subject of Shakespeare's poetry?
• it is about poetry
• itself
• lunatic, love, & the poet
• Heaven to Earth
• myth to reality
• Cain & Able
• earthly death
• Oliver & Orlando
• authoritative literature (Bible)
• Much Ado, Hamlet, King Lear, & The Tempest
• all have the Cain & Able myth 
• Venus & Adonis
• much like As You Like except that Rosalind courts Oliver instead the other way around
• Bloom's fascination with Rosalind
• compared to the magician figures
• Adam
• Green World
• orchard: myth: innocence: Garden of Eden
• Robin Hood
• Mary Arden: Mother Earth
• name of Shakespeare's mother
• Pastoral
• genre
• pasture
• usually romanticized
• Declining ages
• myth of grandparents: "back in my day..."
• Ovid Metamorphosis
• Golden: Silver: bronze: iron ages
• past better than today
• country> city
• cowboy
• last best place
• water of baptism
• Green world
• City slickers
• prelapsarian
• characteristic of time before fall of man
• Shakespeare
• thought to play the part of Adam
• notion of time
• city: governed by clocks
• no set time in country
• blog about Green World
• Act 2 As You Like It
• blog about 
• Why Rosalind becomes a boy?
• penalty of Adam
• wings of desire
• sweet uses of adversity
• angel falls to earth