ENGB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Chantry, Malvolio, Pharmakos
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Pharmakos: greek term for a figure who is a killjoy or spoilsport; he is the holder of all the bad feelings in the play, and must be ejected/reformed from the play by the end. Very close to the word pharmakon : means poison and medicine - figure of a healer and a. It"s hard to read this comedy and understand all the humor that is going on - a lot of the humor is physical and needs you to see the actors performing. Malvolio finding maria"s fake letter (golden globe performance w/ stephen fry as malvolio): Malvolio is a social climber - this was very suspect in shakespeare"s time, which makes it humorous that he would think he could be in a higher class. Branched velvet - velvet was reserved for only the high class. C"s, u"s, and her t"s = cut = female genitalia; jokes about dirty stuff without meaning to.
