Class Notes March 3, 2011

• Terry Tempest Williams
• feminist Mormon environmental writer
• Speaking at the Emerson
• Tuesday March 8
• Attendance is REQUIRED
• Gretchen Minton will be guest speaking
• everyone needs to read Act 1 & 2 of Antony and Cleopatra
• Have at least 1 question to ask
• John Orsi's blog
• Remainder by Tom McCarthy
• Post Modern Novel
• King Lear
• Cordelia and Fool are never on stage at the same time
• might be the same actor
• both remind Lear of who he is
• Needful things
• what is needed?
• page 1592
• Beggar; needful thing; doesn't even need clothes; complete 180
• Storm
• literal & psychological for Lear
• insanity
• 1593
• Lear calling for apocalypse
• cursing all man
• catastrophe
• Job=Lear
• alike in vindictiveness
• Lear towards all man
• Job towards God
• everything is relative
• when things seem the worst possible; it could always be worse
• pelican=cannibalistic
• Page 1596
• Consider him well
• fool, lunatic, old man
• "thou art the thing itself"
• takes off clothes; getting rid of veils/cloak/old self
• 1600
• "The worst returns to laughter"
• On next test!
• 1601
• worst is never the worst if one can say it is the worst
• stichomythia
• 1 liners
• Nate's Blog
• Yon Cot
• IV.6
• Beckett compares with absurd drama
• Gloucester and son
• similar to Joseph and his brothers
• tricking to make them come to a more transformation
• Heart of Shakespeare
• 1605
• Lear
• mimics Oedipus speech
• 1606
• alchemy
• empty out self
• kinosis/nregdo: decomposed blackness
• then elixir can be found
• Via Negatia
• St. John of Cross
• use of this perspective could make play be positive