ENG364Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Theatricality, Stupefied, Abstract Impressionism
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Performance, gender roles slipping in and out. Has a lot of classic themes/tropes done in different ways where there"s a theatricality to it. George and martha have done this game before; have rehearsed them. You can hear them all even if the characters weren"t there. She ruins their reality by making it public. Significance of the song meant to symbolize who"s afraid of the big bad wolf (their reality. Virginia woolf: representative of feminism, modernism, what people were afraid of talking about. In the mind/ stuck in their minds. Play = 3hrs; film = 2 hrs. In the play: there"s no other bar/mobility away from the setting. Miss muff"s college: set up like a porn scenario (intentional) Annulment to make it as if it never happened. Washington + wife: named george and martha (revolution here has gone horribly wrong) Suggests something about professors and universities as well.
