ENGL 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Semiramis, Blazon, Golden Slumber
31 May 2016
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Genre revenge tragedy ; roman play. Modes of representation language and spectacle / words vs. actions. Tension between old/traditional authority and new forms of poetry. Earlier attempts to understand grief, personal grief and public events, consequences of rape, female role/constraints, issues in/about rome. Genres : - tragedy, - roman history. Aristotelian tragedy : tragic hero supposed to elicit pity from audience, causing catharsis. Affect towards titus becomes less petty, and more curiosity as titus"s (sadness) turns to madness. More accurate to call it a revenge tragedy. Shakespeare takes tragedy as a theme : multiple characters get/plot revenge. 1. 1 l136 41 : demetrius : the self-same gods that arm"d the queen of troy. When goths were goths and tamora was queen. To quit the bloody wrongs upon her foes. 4. 1 l73 : marcus : what god will have discover"d for revenge; . Revenge plots tend to show (injustice/injury) to those who have no (social) powered by those who have power.
