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.
Two poems of Surrey: "The Soote Season" and "Ye Happy Dames"
More on Blake's speakers and Bishop's version of Casabianca 2/1/12
Some versions of Petrarch and the allegory of love
More on Blake and the play of voices in his poems
Close reading: the Nurse's Song from Songs of Experience 1-26-12
Skelton's rhymes, Cole Porter's, Wyatt's
Tripartite relations in lullabies
Last class on Lullaby 1-23-12
Love (III) as a version of They Flee From Me 1-23-12
Close reading 1-19-11 Auden and Yeats
Renaissance Poetry - First Class: Wyatt
Close reading: lullabies
Last class: Samson, blindness, closet drama
Temptation in Areopagitica, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained
How human think things through
Moral typologies
Dreams, allegory, other minds
Prayer and Invocation
Paradise Lost, 5
Who judges God's ways?
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