Wednesday, February 2, 2011

notes 2/1/11

Thursday 2/3 Groups will perform their presentations on Act V of MSND

The Argument of Comedy Northrop Frye online on googlebooks: What is comedy?
Green World: Frye is saying dramatists use the woods where they are either consumed or renewed.


pg. 710 A Winter's Tale
"Exit pursued by a bear" stage direction

Shakespeare loved myths "The Brother Battle"=Cain and Abel and "Venus and Adonis"

MSND
Hippolyta was a trophy wife
           Theseus mentions at the start of the show to leave all trajedy "In the woo'd"

end of comedy- a coming together

*Ashleys blog* pg 260 Lysander: Love looks with the mind...

The mechanicals= Snug, Bottom, Quincy etc

The order of characters changed with their languages

Realms
Gods to Heroes to People to Chaos

Titania accuses Oberon of cheating with Hippolyta and vice versa

Titania: These are the forgeries of jealousy we are their parents and originals

Amend: Fix it. Stitch together what has been torn to pieces (sparagmos)?

*Nathans blog*

pg 278 Act VI scene 2 Bottoms speech see footnote

"The bottom of secrets"

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