ENGL 326 Lecture Notes - Morality Play, Twelfth Night, Usury
20 Jan 2016
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When freneze pulls that confiscatory stunt on the jews, we feel badly for them at the beginning: but then this goes away. Shows us a world in which all there are are machiavels. There is no framework that will stand in their play. Machiavel says prologue the way that vice does in a morality. Merchant of venice the way they act is unpredictable, hard to get bearings and what that means. They don"t leave the play in the way they do in jew of malta, but. Trying to identify what the play invites us to do interpretatively. Play was first identified as a comedy. Oscillation in play between justice and mercy core of the trial. Play has a source: italian short story written end of fifteenth. We don"t know the origin of the casket story. The jessica lorenzo plotline is not referenced. Close reading of opening statement between antonio and s and. Act 1 scene 3 making of the bond.
