ENGL 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Leontes, Tragicomedy, Irminones
5 May 2019
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Genre vs. mode: genre: something that affects the form and structure of a work, mode: affects the manner in which the story is told. Self-conscious moments in the winter"s tale: sad things written in a funny way, shakespeare seems to be self-conscious about the nature of the genre he is working in. Juxtaposition of happy and sad in the same work here. Tragicomedy: giovanni battista guarini, defended his work il pastor fido , that was a pastoral tragicomedy, a new genre it wants death, making it a tragedy, but only brings other near it, which makes it a comedy. His suspicion controls him and he sees fault in those he loves where there is none. Nothing, nothing, nothing can express how her love is more than the others": sexual imagery regarding hands and fingers similar to iago"s metaphors in othello.
