ENGL 252 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Emile Ardolino, The Public Theater, Blank Verse

• School: Cal Poly
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 252
• Professor: Professor Schwartz

Document Summary

Men are in complete control of their daughters/ wives. Hermia could: choose the man that the father picks, be a nun, or die. Hippolyta does not seem to love theseus at the beginning of the play. Defeated in battle so he gained the wife. She has no agency, forced to marry, forced to watch her husband force a woman to marry a man she doesn"t love. Shakespeare would not have wanted his works to be printed in his time. If anyone could buy the play, they wouldn"t pay to attend his shows because other people would perform his plays. First quarto: such a good text/ copy and doesn"t have a lot of errors, people think that the printer had shakespeare"s manuscript. Folio: at least as twice the size of a play, large sheets, anthology, whole bunch of plays. Some only exist in folio, none is quartos. People who put it together: heminges and condell.