class 2-24-13
Agenda Orgasm and Death Quiz 13 Plot/Sentence Questions Synthesis and development of Monday’s discussion Discussion of Act 3 via Jazz’s blog post Scenes from the play Orgasm and Death Ben Jonson’s translation of a Roman poem by Petronius: Doing,…
Antonio and Sebastian: Friends or More?
I kind of felt like maybe there were some deeper feelings between Antonio and Sebastian during the last Act, but I wasn’t quite sure of whether or not it was just good, manly friendship between them and one man truly…
class 4-22-13
Agenda Quiz 12 Plot/Sentence Questions Discussion of acts 1 -2 via blog posts Tone of play Quiz 12 1. Who is Sebastian? 2. Who is Antonio? 3. Who does Malvolio believe the letter he has found is from? 4. Who…
Gender and Love Confusion
Act 2 of The Twelfth Night is full of events in which the behaviors of both the male and female characters seem quite odd. It is strange enough that a love triangle between Viola (Cesario), Olivia, and Orsino exists where…
Women projected by men
In Act 2, Scene 2, we see Viola, who at the time is still disguised as a man, professing her worries about Olivia’s mistaken affections for her. In this long speech, we hear Viola, a woman, proclaiming how foolish women…
Chaos of Love and Identity in Twelfth Night
In 2:5, the joke Maria, Sir Toby, and Sir Andrew played on Malvolio gives full rise to the theme of “identity instability” because they are acting as though they are Olivia sending a love letter to him. This was present…
class 4-17-13
Agenda Discuss assignment Discuss plot/sentence questions Closing Remarks on Merry Wives Discussion of Twelfth Night Closing Remarks on Merry Wives Fenton: You would have married her most shamefully, Where there was no proportion held in love. The truth is,…
Metatheatricality in Shakespeare’s Time
Throughout the Merry Wives of Windsor, Mistress Page and Mistress Ford “act” quite often within the play. Even in Act IV, when Mistress Ford and Mistress Page dress Falstaff and make him appear to be Ford’s aunt and having him…
Mistress Quickly for Quick Judgement
Within the first scene of act four of the Merry Wives of Windsor, it shows that Mistress Quickly is a person who tends to judge everything she hears quickly. Not only does she end up hearing everyone’s problems since she’s…
class 4-15-13
Having Your Cake and Eating It Too Nearly all those surveyed (93%) agree, “a candidate’s demonstrated capacity to think critically, communicate clearly, and solve complex problems is more important than their undergraduate major.” More than nine in ten…