ENGL 2P80 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Blind Experiment, Cuckold, Tangled
5 Feb 2016
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Next lecture: talk about the plays genre. Plays title: in its primary sense the word nothing is a paradox on the one hand as a known the words function is to denote or point to something. On the other hand what the word denotes is the absence of something, of anything at all. The word nothing is a substantive that completely lacks substance. 16 century english nothing pronounces as noting observing or remarking acts of perception or misperception. The link between perception and knowledge is subject to regular human manipulation not an act of god or fairies like mnd, but an act of power and it has lasting and troubling consequences. The fictional world of the play is a fishbowl world in which everyone looks and is looked at, overhears and is overheard, deceived and is deceived shifting relationships of cognitive superiority. Who knows more than who is very important in the play.
