- Gretchen Minton Lecture
- March 8
- 4pm
- Wilson 2257
- Group Projects Criteria
- Entertaining and instructional
- must have at least 1 clip of the scene; doesn't have to be very long
- King Lear
- 3 Versions
- read the Conflated version starts on page 1574
- Ailing King
- mythological
- reminiscent of the myth of the Golden Bowl
- Jenny's blog
- Lear is an egoist
- named Cordelia
- cord means heart in French
- What to do with aging elders
- joke about King Lear
- egotistical males divides his consciousness
- worst play ever written
- Subplot identical to main plot
- Edgar/Edmund feud similar to that of Lear's daughters
- fairytale
- very reminiscent of Cinderella
- Edmund
- evil because he is de-mythologized
- most characters are very black and white as to the fact if they are good or evil
- Central words of the play according to Frye
- Nature
- 12 different meanings for the word
- Nothing
- Bloom
- the Invention of Humor
- Shakespeare is the center of the Canon
- King Lear is the center of Shakespeare
- Imagination
- Eye Scene (Lear offers to give his eyes up)
- understands others/things in the world that are different
- Dragon=Boar
- Edgar
- It is never the worst as long as you can say it can get worst
- It can always be worse because you could always be dead
- Flies
- kill us for sport
- discussed how everyone used to kill flied
- flies to us are like we are to gods
- Fool
- function is to teach Lear who he is
- Albany
- only character who is not distinctly good or bad
- know his wife is a horrible person but doesn't know how to fix her
- flyting
- BLOG about
- exchange of terms of abuse
- similar to that exchanged between siblings
- based on things household
- example page 1586
- disguised as a madman
- Edgar
- Tom of Bedlam
- escapees from asylums
- wandering the country side
- 3 Great Tragedies of Literature
- Job
- King Lear
- The Brother's Karamazov
- Bo Diddly
- Find a King Lear clip
- Blog about it
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Class Notes March 1, 2011
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