ENG100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Incest Taboo, Sprachbund
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2. 3. 66-84 --> bassianus describes aaron as aboninable. There is a threat coming from tamora (revenge it as you love your mother"s life/or be not called my sons) There is a threat because of lineage. Where does shakespeare get his ideas? (ovid metamorphoses) In ovid, greeks are the homelad, the thracians are the barbarians who are outside the linguistic area of greece. Tereu"s rape of philomel breaks the incest taboo. Philomel threatens to speak the crime that has been committed against her. Babbling --- barbariansthe things that babble are barbarians (idea of lavinia getting her tongue get offonly allows her to babble and not speak) Lavinia"s encounters with demetrius and chiron are encounters with barbarians. There[s a link between the mouth and wounded genitals. We need to read ovid to understand the underlying meaning because shakespeare can"t stage everything (especially a rape) Procne (the sister) and philomela discover the crime and it is procne that designs the revenge.
