ENGL 3020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Magnanimity, Pedophilia, Michel De Montaigne
14 Sep 2016
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Class, sex, and privilege: when lines in early modern drama talk about body position outside of the context of sex, it is actually probably talking about sex nonetheless, just subtly. Thematic innovation: edward doesn"t fail because he"s a bad ruler he fails because he is assassinated by lightborn (a word for "satan" or "lucifer") This can read as a sign that edward ii is being killed/damned for his choices. Yet note that lightborn was working for mortimer, a politician (and a fairly machiavellian figure too: but as readers/viewers, we can"t really tell what the play is trying to say because. Marlowe"s thematic innovation was that everything became ambiguous present yet not the main point of the play. Your virtues had to be mirrored by the other. You must be social equals with your friends thus men and women could not be friends because there was no social equality that put them at the same level.
