Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Class Notes March 29, 2011

  • Blog about theories for paper
    • Bloom: not romances/histories/tragedies/comedies...Shakespeare transcends genres
    • families separated then captured by pirates then united by improbable means
  • Comedy of Errors
    • Flying Karamatza Brothers
      • VERY FUNNY
  • Cymbeline & Winters Tale
    • experiments with reunions
  • Titus & Adronidus & Pericles
    • best on stage
    • better to watch than read
  • Pericles
    • dumb show=silent
    • Helicauus-parts of fool
    • Gower-chorus
    • Marina model of Miranda
    • Psyche & Cupid - same story
    • Dudley Do-Right and Bo Winkle likened to Helicanus
    • Music is great healer
      • Merchant of Venice music lust scenes
    • basket: Moses & Superman
    • Sophia
    • Spring of Year
      • changing myths
      • mother & daughter myth
        • daughter thought to be dead
          • Persephone & Demeter
        • consuming myth until the end of his life
      • how things must die to truly live
        • Gospel of John
        • Brothers Pericles
  • Shakespeare's Mystery Plays
  • Pericles
    • Act 5 Scene 1 Lines 189
      • "Thou that beget'st him that did thee beget"
      • born again through his own daughter
  • Diana at Ephesus
    • page 638

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