We finally really begin Antony and Cleopatra, discussing Plutarch's interest in character, and Shakespeare's, and what makes a tragic character interesting since we know what the plot will be. Aristotle on pity and terror again: usually the protagonist or main is someone innocent or at worst someone like ourselves: not so in Macbeth. After which we start analyzing the opening scene, with comparisons to Lear and to Hamlet as well (on the quantification of love). Many corny jokes.
Mont Blanc continued: Brain or Sky
Songs from the Plays: Nashe, Kenneth Koch, Daniel
Mont Blanc: which is to be master
More on Astrophel and Stella; then some Shakespeare
Paradise Lost, The Intimations Ode, Mont Blanc
Last class on the Intimations Ode
Continuing on with the Intimations Ode
Astrophel and Stella, part 2
First class on Astrophel and Stella
Intimations Ode rebooted and general remarks on the Romantic sense of Milton 2_27_12
Vacation bonus: talk at UCLA
Wordsworth reboots the Intimations Ode
Southwell and Marlowe - 2.13.12
The Intimations Ode proper - 2.13.12
Heavy as Frost 2-9-12
Some moments from the Faerie Queene 2-8-12
Versions of the Intimations Ode
A desultory class on Spenser 2/6/12
Poetry and the personification of Love - 2/6/12
The burning boy: Metaphor and personification 2-2-12
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