ENGLISH 117S Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Seeking Justice, Golden Slumber, Philomela
13 Oct 2017
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Final exam most questions will be short essay questions, it will be an open book take-home exam (shortened version of papers) Genre: set of rules that the audience is aware of as well (and that the playwright follows) All plays were written w/in twenty-eight year period. Alternatives for shakespeare candidates (for these theories) is that they tend to be aristocrats (shakespeare was not an aristocrat) Comedy simply means that the play can end w/o massacre. Revenge is a subcategory of shakespeare"s tragedy create a prototype for tragedy. In tragedies the person who experiences this injustice or makes this mistake is so highly ranked that the whole entire social structure is impacted by the mistake. Importance of the main hero is the major distinction between tragedies and comedies, importance is linked to social status. I. e. titus andronicus has no historical basis but shakespeare tries to create a sense of rome, Other cities that are exotic place far away from us .
