ENG220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dramatic Monologue
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Shakespeare is the moment that they are figuring out how the theatre works. A purpose built playhouse" getting people to come and pay before they"ve even seen it. It"s the television of its moment, the place they go to tell english audiences their history. Tells you something about what a character cares about. Maintain skepticism about what the theatre is doing. The difference between a history narrative and a history play. Published as a quarto- small, easy to bring with you, a thing to be read as well as seen. Too limited for understanding the multivalent conceptions of tragedy and the tragic character. The goddess fortune holds a wheel, and she turns it, you have no control over it, you"re at the top of the wheel, she turns it, and you fall. People want to read richard"s tragedy as ultimately being punished by god. The order of his histories was written like star wars -last ones first.
