ENGL 3020 Lecture Notes - Heterosexuality, Rightful Heir, Mahatma Gandhi
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The university wits were importin aristotle, changing the way theatre was done. Prior to this period theatre was based on medieval reality plays, and psycho plays. Every time you see a mentioning of harrod the great, that is basically a reference to these old plays. Formal verse,dialogue really the importation of blank verse (not always iambic pentameter). Dialogue shifts around the 1580"s and flows much better: hubris is a medieval concept, not aristotle. Marlowe and the others took what they liked, and used it. Hubris is one of the things they saw as not being prescriptive. The reason why the sinful and egoism definition doesn"t work. What that means is that it"s a law that prevents the rich from humiliating the poor. It"s about humiliation based on your societal class. The first 4 weeks of american idol are hubristic: hubris came under offending honor . If you intentional insult someone and dishonor them, that"s hubristic.
