ENGL 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Menaechmi, Ancient Greek Comedy, Shell Game
13 Jun 2016
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Many plays where authority figures have to implement the law. Push comes to shove, find ways around it. Egeon tells his story at the beginning and affects the duke. Duke gives him until the end of the day to find the extra money to help pay for his rent. End of play, entire family is reunited. You can play with these laws near the end, but at the beginning they"re hardlined. Dramatic unities - classical format in which play has to take place in real time. Antony and cleopatra - over a decade, going from country or country. Figure of time walks onto stage, declares 16 years have passed. The only other play that does this is the tempest. Shakespeare makes us aware of this because there are many references to time. One married, wants to have sex with a courtesan, she sends it off to get fixed. The other brother gets mixed in and mistaken for his brother.
