Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

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Christopher Marlowe

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Playwrite, Jew of Malta, Once a spy, killed in a car brawl at 29; White-hot scandelous figure of Elizabethan Age

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Thomas Kidd

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Roomate of Marlowe, testified to Privy about Marlowe and his lack of piety

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Intentional Falacy

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The idea that we can never say what the authors intention is completely

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Tragedy

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Ends in death according to the Poetics by Aristotle, illustrates an action rather than a character from better to worce, not of vice nut of frailty or error

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Hubris

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Tragic flaw, shortcoming

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Anagnorisis

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discovery, it was the hero's suddenly becoming aware of a real situation and therefore the realisation of things as they stood; and finally it was a perception that resulted in an insight the hero had into his relationship with often antagonistic characters within Aristotelian tragedy; the recognition of exactly what went wrong

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Catharsis

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Moments when we recognize or purge emotions of pity and fear

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Stock Character

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A stock character is one that the audience will be familiar with and that is used in many plays. They were greatly used by Plautus. Stock characters could sometimes even be recognized by their speeches.

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Fop

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is a stock character who appears from time to time in fiction. He is a person who makes a habit of fastidiously overdressing and putting on airs, aspiring to be viewed as an aristocrat (if he is not already one); like Mr. Politic Would-be

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Anapest

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2 unstressed syllables

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spondi

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2 stressed syllables

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iambic pentameter

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10 beat line of unstess stress which supposedly most closely mimics natural speech

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homoletic value

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from vice to virtue is an exploration of Christian piety

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vice figure

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pioneers the aside, weird in morality dramas, sometimes withould their names but will usually tell the audience who they are

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Roman Comedy

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Comedy ends in marriage, usually 2 lovers and a blocking figure

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The Liberties

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Where the nunneries and monastaries once stood, now home of the play houses

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Doxa

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experience by which natural and spiritual world appears by what is self evident; ability to think past this is embracing fate

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Carnival

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Holidays or holy days of feasting, drinking celebration; many eliminated during Elizabethan times as Protestants argued they were holdovers from pagan traditions

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Bakhtin

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Man who wrote about Carnival, compared it to theatre as in the theatre people too let off steam, relaxed, purged

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Wonder

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Catholic practice or search, more about the sublime

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virtu

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The power or ability to achieve an end, encompasses a broader collection of traits necessary for maintenance of the state and "the achievement of great things." Virtù, for Machiavelli, was not equivalent to moral virtue, but was instead linked to the raison d'État. Indeed, what was good for the state and for the leader may be contradictory to that which is morally good

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Humourus comedy

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The comedy of humours refers to a genre of dramatic comedy that focuses on a character or range of characters, each of whom has one overriding trait or 'humour' that dominates their personality and conduct. This comic technique may be found in Aristophanes, but the English playwrights Ben Jonson and George Chapman popularized the genre in the closing years of the sixteenth century. In the later half of the seventeenth century, it was combined with the comedy of manners in Restoration comedy.

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Othering

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Theorized by Spivak, colonizing society defines itself through the process of othering the natives

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Senecan Tragedy

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1st Century; Probably meant to be recited at elite gatherings, they differ from their originals in their long declamatory, narrative accounts of action, their obtrusive moralizing, and their bombastic rhetoric. They dwell on detailed accounts of horrible deeds and contain long reflective soliloquies.