ENG220H1 Lecture Notes - Shrew, Metatheatre, Dramatization
Document Summary
Eng220 - comedies i: kate"s speech in taming of the shrew. Katherine"s speech @ the end of taming of the shrew. Creating a fantasy, registered as a fantasy: soft, pampered woman: created around registering a current and past economic order, nostalgic language for different economic order (i. e. lord, sovereign, etc. ) Katherine"s speech: fantasy of identity that is built out of thinking about a relationship of past and present. Eng220 - comedies ii: the taming of the shrew & comedy of errors. Iambic pentameter: general form of 16th century: control, structure, excess. Form (of the work) & history (of its time) are inseparable: literary forms are expressions of history, historical documents: to exist in history and speak of a time. The form of ____ as historical construct: taming of the shrew, katherine"s speech. Impossible to imagine (modern life now) an ambiguous statement of gender relations.
