ENG 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: The Yes Album, Shakespearean Comedy
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Greek stuff hera & hippodrome in the play - mythological. Zachary avoids hera because he fears her wrath about his infidelity. Highway is blending cultures: aboriginal, pop, and now greek. And he is blending reality and mythology both through the greek and the hippodrome and the dream and reality. Blending of cultures is part of the play"s deliberate playfulness opening: begins with its pants down. Comedy shakespearean comedy just means happy ending . Doesn"t have to be funny it has to resolve things in its conclusion. Word of the day: flux 19th century model/aesthetic. Everything is in a state of perpetual change (not static/fluid) Heraclitus you cannot step in the same river twice. In art life is a series of fleeting impressions. Everything is unstable, most of all us. Moore changes time a lot constant shifting in time jumps forward and then flashback then present. Conversation based on non sequiturs conversation in flux relationships in flux as well.
