ENG100H1 Lecture Notes - Recto And Verso, William Weaver, Psychomachia
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Shakespeare was first recognized as a poet rather than as a dramatist. 1594 his first play titus andronicus. Goddess seduces adonis who has little interest in sex. When poem was printed it read lucrece but the running titles read rape of lucrece . Shakespeares complete works (big book compilation folded in half?) Genette: all the texts that surround the main text (side notes, indexes, dedication) a. k. a. The arguement: provides a historical context for the poem but also tells the entire story in miniature. If the story is already well known, then reader is more interested in how well one re-tells it. Is not only a man who rapes a woman but he"s also a king who"s violated laws and. Tyrannical behaviour: oppression of pple, murder or his father, siege of ardea. Her rape leads to chaos, end of the existing empire/reign. Chastity not the same as virginity = purity. We have a narrator who does not have access to everything.
