HUM 001B Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Peripeteia, Polonius, Anagnorisis
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Lecture 27: unfolding hamlet: william shakespeare (1564-1616, theater company: the lord chamberlain"s men; later, the king"s men (during king. James"s reign: status of theater: controversial; challenged gender stereotypes and class hierarchies, problems: (threatened nobility because acting like nobility regardless of current status, cross-dressing [men dressing like women was strange, alarmingly attractive] ) Theater banned by parliament in 1st english civil war (1642) because of the problems. Puritanical: defining tragedy - might happen/ hypothetical, wasn"t seen as drama/narrative, middle ages. A narrative in which individuals go from prosperity to wretchedness. The capriciousness of fortune was responsible for such changes in status: moral: focus on spirituality and the afterlife rather than transient and, tragedy based off aristotle worldly things. Self-contained; should develop according to the law of probability or necessity. Hamlet"s hammartia -> inability to act -> inability to know hidden truth.
