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.
Early Romantics XXVI Climbing Mt. Snowdon in Prelude XIII
Imagining Money XXXVII Wed 5-1-19 Last class: managing desire
Early Romantics XXV 4-29-19 -- The Prelude and Wordsworth in general
Imagining Money XXXVI Mon 4-29-19 Preference, loss aversion, anxiety
Imagining Money XXXV Thurs 4-18-19 maguffins and the management of longing
Early Romantics XXIV Wednesday 4-17-19
Imagining Money XXXIV Wed 4-17-19 Stories of gambling
Early Romantics XXIII Monday 4-15-19 Home and homelessness
Imagining Money XXXIII Mon 4-15-19 How endings shape desires
Imagining Money XXXII Loss aversion - Thaler
Early Romantics XXII Wednesday 4-10-19 Intimations Ode, Prelude, Nature
Imagining Money XXXI -- poker, money, chips, macguffins, loss aversion
Early Romantics XXI Monday 4-8-19 More Intimations Ode
Imagining Money XXX Mon 4-9-19 MacGuffins
Imagining Money XXIX Hyperbolic Discounting
Early Romantics XX Wed 4-3-19
Imagining Money XXVIII Wed 4-3-19 Hyperbolic Discounting and such
Early Romantics XIX Monday 4-1-19 Bouncing around the Prelude
Imagining Money XXVII Mon 4-1-19 Common Knowledge and poker
Imagining Money XXVI Thursday 3-27-19 Mainly on cultural capital
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