ENGL 105A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Morality Play, Theatricality, Sumptuary Law
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Richard iii and dramatic energy: historical and dramatic models. Richard wins lady anne: theatricality & danger. Description of richard of gloucester: richard was little of stature . Clarence to this death : only one portrait of richard iii authenticity, based on a kind of play called morality plays. Edwards is asking about the tower; he says i do not like the tower, but the julius. Some morality plays of 16c: enough is as good as a feast. Typical names of the vice: avarice, dissimulation-false speaking, ambidexter-playing w both hands; being able to play double, iniquity- formal vice. Vice character is the first character introduced; come forward to the audience and explain: Watch what i am going to do i am going to disguise myself as . Vice is always defeated at the end of the play. Soliloquy: opening scene: richards soliloquy: now is the winter , richards and clarence (entering tower)
