Thursday, April 28, 2011

The worst returns to laughter

Missed 2 questions...

What does Titus feed to the Queen of the Goths?
- her Children

What song did this group sing that matchedOthello
- Ring of Fire

Which cliche character plated Othello?
- Indian Chief

If you banish the negative people you take away the world

The stage and the world are the same.

The Boar's Head Tavern

Te Hammock of Time is associated with what play?
- Much Ado About Nothing

The word "noting" means what? (Elizabethan standard slang)
-sexual relations (female genitalia)

What did Angelo want Isabella to give him?
- Her virtue

The title Measure For Measure comes from where?
-The Sermon on the Mount

Who in the play Coriolanus would play the boar?
-Coriolanus 

Antony and Cleopatra is like the mature version of
-Romeo and Juliet (Viagra)

Iago is what mythological person according to Riley?
-Prometheus

If you want to change your personality, according to Spencer, all you have to do is...
-Change your hat.

What was Nick's advice as to the roles that we play?
-Play them as best you can

What sin is most prominent, according to Taylor?
-all of them

According to Jamie, Rosalind and Celia are like which two Biblical characters?
-Naomi and Ruth

What was one of the literary theories that Nate talked about?
-Presentism (what does the text mean here and now)

The remembrance that really counts is the one that traces back through the Real to the mythological.

Which person in this class did not have a question? Villain.
-iago

Who did Roberto compare Caliban to?
-Smerdyakov

According to Lauren Scull, what is the Myth surrounding Caliban
Andromeda

According to Shelby, why does Shakespeare go away from conventional plot?
-To elevate us to the sublime

Silence of Cordelia, Silence of Sycorax 

What is the point of this class?
Mything the point

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Just April

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A Semester of Shakespeare

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Why is a Guru Like a Writing Desk?

Thursday, April 7, 2011

20110407

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20110407
p.24 - Venus & Adonis
          "... in her light chariot..."

- "Nothing is ever lost" - Shakespeare

- Remember everything.
          Echo's echo
          memory
          mememoreme

- Anamnesis
          - Unforgetting

- Ariel - What time is left
          Time - temper - tempest - time

- Roberto/Ariel
          "On the sixth hour, at which time my lord. You said our work should cease."

- Term Paper Idea: Silent as Iago

- The whole play is a play within a play

- PROSPERO's BOOKS (Which I have if anyone would like a copy of this hard to find dvd)

- QUESTIONS:

- What time is it?

- How many times does Prospero say "now"?
          - 79

- What game are Miranda and Ferdinand playing?
          - Chess

- What chore - Ferdinand & Caliban?
          - Carrying wood

- Where does Prospero get his power?
          - Robe/Books

- Seeing/Doing/Speaking
          - Sacramental

- How is Antony like Prospero?
          - Conquer the feminine

- Which persona did Sr. Sexson NOT apply to Prospero?
          - Hobbit

- Sycorax
          - Sow/Boar

- To be remembered
          - In Antony and Cleopatra
                    - What is curious about all the scenes with Antony and Cleopatra together?
                              - They are never alone.

- Best way to free someone from pain?
          - Entrap them in fantasy

- Consuming myth in Pericles?
          - Demeter & Persephone
- What is the mole on Imogen's Breast
          - Cowslip
          - Tinkerbell/Julia Roberts
- Handkerchief
          - Cowslip
                    - Echo

- What is fun?
          - "It's all an echo"

- The most important female alchemist?
          - Paulina
                    -Turtle
          - Female Magician (Mage)

- What does Paulina do to awaken Hermione?
          - Plays music

- What poem does MSU's motto come from? (Mountains and Minds)
          - Gerard Manley Hopkins "No Worse There is None"

- Cleopatra death?
          - Snake

- What or whom always shows up in romance?
          - Pirates

- What word is mentioned most in the notion of outcome in A Winter's Tale
          - Issues

- When Antony quotes "The shirt of Nessus is upon me"
          - The Shirt of Flame
          - Hercules

- Why do Alonso and Sebastian believe they won't die in the Tempest?
          - The Mariner had the hanging mark, not the drowning mark

- Most famous stage direction from A Winter's Tale
          - Exit Perused by a bear

- What changes does Imogen go through?
          - Fidel (faithful)

- Mimelias - Boy in A Winter's Tale
          - Leontes - story

- What are three words Frye prepare for King Lear?
          - Nothing
          - Fool
          - Nature

- Who does Lear love the most in the beginning? (Offends him)
          - Cordelia ("my heart")

- What is Lady Gaga swimming in?
          - A bath of cottage cheese

- "If thou wilt weep my fortunes ______   ______   ______"
          - take my eyes

- What play has the most protracted recognition scene?
          - Pericles (Father and Daughter)

- "What seest thou else in the dark backward and abysm of time?"

- Which play has the Scooby Do ending?
          - Cymbaline

- What happens to Guiderias just before he is revealed as Cymbaline's son?
          - Exiled

- What are the three goddesses revealed at the end of A Winter's Tale?
          - Perdita/Paulina/Hermione
          - Mother/Maiden/Crone

- What is the answer to the riddle in Pericles?
          - Incest

Remember to read up on the notes taken on Jennifer, Taylor and Karinne's blogs!