EN 1002 Lecture Notes - Petrarchan Sonnet, Narrative Poetry, Courtly Love
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Key words: romance genre, source, point of view, star-crossed, narrative framing, truth-claim, chronology, renaissance, translation, plagiarism, gender, prehistory of the novel, originality dedication. Authors reveal their designs by rewriting the story. Brooke: keeps juliet"s suicide with dagger, keeps punishments of minor characters, mutes truth-claim, adds intrusive narrator, nurse is mercenary, friar is mostly good. Dramatic patterning: structure plot elements more connected: accentuates contrasts, creates a web of relations, alternates scenes of public and private experience, heightens the civic fued as a foul to intimacy of the lovers. Death of tybalt brings lovers together: variety of moods. Juliet is much younger than in sources: she suffers, endures more than he does, she"s stronger, smarter, her suicide with dagger is more courageous than romeo"s by self-poisoning. She uses the masculine symbol and he uses the feminine one. Also decadence and decay vs. their freshness: mercutio drag queen. A glooming peace this morning juliet and her romeo.
