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.
Advanced Shakespeare 19 Friday 3-27-20 Act I concluded
Advanced Shakespeare 18 Friday 3-20-20 Antony and Cleopatra Act I continued
Advanced Shakespeare 17. Antony and Cleopatra 2.1: the soothsayer and Cleopatra's women
Advanced Shakespeare 16 Being Mark Antony
Advanced Shakespeare 15, 3-10-20 Ages of the characters -- Shakespeare's temporal preferences
Advanced Shakespeare 13 - March 3, 2020 Last class on Macbeth: sonnets and then "My way of life is fallen...."
Advanced Shakespeare 12 Feb 28 2020 Poetic form and Yes Fear ShakeFear
Advanced Shakespeare 11 2/25/20 Interiorizing time
Advanced Shakespeare 10 Class of 2/14/20
Advanced Shakespeare 9 2/11/20: Remorse and repentance
Advanced Shakespeare 8 2/7/20 Being a character and daemonization
Advanced Shakespeare 7 2/4/20 Friendship and love in Shakespeare
Advanced Shakespeare 6 1/31/20 -- witches and soothsayers and messengers o my
Advanced Shakespeare 5 1/28/20 De Quincey Knocking at the Gate
Advanced Shakespeare 4 Friday 1/24/19 -- knocking at the gate, &c
Advanced Shakespeare 3 1/21/20: Macbeth, conflict, Coleridge on puns
Advanced Shakespeare 2 1/17/20
Advanced Shakespeare Episode 1 1/14/20
Early Romantics XXVII 5-10-19 LONG Last class on Coleridge
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