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.
Paradise Lost, III
Paradise Lost, II
First class on Paradise Lost
Comus, rape, and freedom
Lycidas, concluded, and Comus
Contrasts and debates in Milton
First class on Milton: Lycidas
Scopophilia and narrative
More on Book VI as Pastoral
Variety and uniformity
Justice and Courtesy
Varieties of justice
The Temple of Venus
The friend as second self in Book 4
Faerie Queene, Book IV: Love and Friendship
Matter and form in the Garden of Adonis
What it's like to live in the Land of Faery
Amoret and Belphoebe, and what the House of Busirane is for
More on Book 3
Faerie Queene III Britomart and allegory
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