THEA 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Morality Play, Elizabethan Era, Mystery Play
18 Jun 2018
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The Goat
● Classical tragedy - “Notes Towards a Definition of Tragedy”
● The Two Gentlemen of Verona - play by William Shakespeare and there is a song in the
play called “Who is Sylvia”
○ Two main characters:
■ Valentine- sure of heart
■ Proteus - comes from the Latin word for changeable
○ Proteus serenades Sylvia
● The word Sylvia comes from the Latin word forest
● Swain means sailor/ someone who knows something about the water but then became
to mean lover
● Martin notices Sylvia’s eyes first when he sees her
● Martin says that Sylvia is a goddess trapped in the body of a goat
● Stevie is more mad that Martin loves Sylvia than that he has sex with her
● Sylvia is killed by Stevie
○ She slit her throat
● “Shut your tragic mouth” page 29
● Page 49
Chapter 2
● Page 27 - 3 tragedy writers and 2 comedy writer
● Medieval Plays
● Morality plays
● Mystery plays
● Shakespeare wrote in the Elizabethan era and Jacobian Era
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Document Summary
Classical tragedy - notes towards a definition of tragedy . The two gentlemen of verona - play by william shakespeare and there is a song in the play called who is sylvia . Proteus - comes from the latin word for changeable. The word sylvia comes from the latin word forest. Swain means sailor/ someone who knows something about the water but then became to mean lover. Martin notices sylvia"s eyes first when he sees her. Martin says that sylvia is a goddess trapped in the body of a goat. Stevie is more mad that martin loves sylvia than that he has sex with her. Page 27 - 3 tragedy writers and 2 comedy writer.
