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Who considered SP the "center of the western canon? |
Harold Bloom |
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What is the term for "the creation of a new word" and how many did SP have? |
Neologism/ 1500 |
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SP's years on the planet, aka alive? |
1564-1616 |
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What term means "verbal dueling between characters? |
Stichomythia |
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What is a play within a play? |
Metadrama |
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What is a person place or thing out of place in time and what genera are they mostly found in? |
Anachronism/ History Plays |
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When a character talks to the audience: |
Aside |
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Term: Doing evil by the hand of God... and who does this describe? |
Escurge/ Richard III (RIII) |
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What type of language did SP write in? |
Early Modern English (w/ blank verse) |
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Who is always the main protagonist in any SP History play? |
British England itself |
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What is SP's source for all his history plays? |
the Holinshed Chronicles |
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what are three works in a series? four works? |
Trilogy/ Tetralogy |
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(RIII) Who are Richard III's romantic interests and what is significant about them |
Anne (curses RIII unknowingly, 1st wooing scene, SP's own wife was named Anne) Margret (2nd wooing scene, Lamentation scene, learns how to curse from RIII's mom) |
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structure of 1HIV? |
triangular: Nobility, tavern world, rebels |
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Falstaff's state roots: |
Miles glorious (talk the talk, doesn't walk the walk) vice figure (sin) parasite character (no explanation needed) |
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quote: "mars in swaddling clothing" |
1 Henry IV, talking about Hotspur |
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plays without antecedents/ precursors/ sources |
Love's Labors Lost/ Midsummer's night dream/ The Tempest |
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common aspects of Romantic Comedy? |
Love is key/ outdoor scenes/ idealized heroin/ concluding in marriage |
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Primogeniture: |
Where the eldest son inherits all property |
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Venery: |
to hunt/ have excessive sex |
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Masque: |
A form of courtly entertainment, nobels acted, music, masks, and costumes are the focal points, not plot. Anti-masques are for commoners (Ben Johnson). ex in. MSND, LLL |
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What is The Greenworld? Who termed it? |
it is a place in SP's work where metamorphosis takes place (forest in MSND). It was termed by Northropfrye. |
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quote: "The Lunatic, the love, and the poet are of imagined all compact" |
Midsummer Night's Dream |
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Dotage: |
Obsessive Love |
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term for a final speech? |
an Epologue. Ex in The tempest, MSND |
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term for heterosexual norm: |
Heteronormative |
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The final Renaissance Dynasty: |
The Tudors |
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SP's collection of works: |
The First Folio |
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Genre of Merchant of Venice: |
Tragicomedy/ Problem play |
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Source of Merchant of Venice? |
The Stationer's Register |
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social bonds b/w persons of the same sex: |
Homosocial |
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what is a maiden's complaint? |
sung by a woman lamenting lost love due to something physical |
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Talisman objects |
objects in SP that provide magical protection. exs: handkerchief (othello), Ring(Merch of venice) |
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gernre of Hamlet |
REVENGE TRAGEDY |
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Father of the revenge tragedy and Stoicism |
Seneca |
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Genere of Othello: |
Domestic Tragedy |
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Who collected the works for the First Folio? |
Hemmings and Condell |
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genre of The Tempest: |
Romance |
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Main theme of Romance: |
Reconciliation |
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quote: "The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance" |
The Tempest |
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quote: "We are such stuff dreams are made of" |
The Tempest, prospero |
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When did the Puritans discontinue the plays |
1642 |
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The books SP had in his library: |
The Bible/ Ovid |
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Richard III's family? |
The Plantagenets |
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structure of Ricahrd III/ Structure of 1 Henry IV |
episodic/ triangular |
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qualities of Petrarchan love poetry: |
Unattainable woman/ love sickness/ Religiosity/ Earning fame |
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Hermia and... |
Lysander |
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visual designer for many Masques? |
Inigo Jones |
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It was believed by some in SP's time that Love sickness was caused by the... |
eyes. |
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most popular region of SPs time: |
Christian Humanism |
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binary oppositions |
the idea that people in western culture construct their ideas in contrary pairs. |
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Play with the most words? |
Hamlet |
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A play with no words: |
A dumb show. |
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When boys want to win different women in their lives |
the Oedipal Complex (freud) |
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the unconscious incorporation of Characteristics: |
Incorporation (Hamlet becoming scourge and minister instead of the ghost) |
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Characteristic only in Tragedy: |
Revenge |
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Who called Iago the Motiveless Malignity? |
Coleridge |
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What is the "Primal Eldest Curse" |
the curse from brothers killing their brothers. ex. Prospero's brother... BUT... reconciliation!! |
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the conscience ( to freud ) : |
the superego |
