ENGB33 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Shylock, Rembrandt
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Psychology of man i am not what i am (1. 1) Venice & women (3. 3: clime, complexion, degree. Themes in titus: revenge and reading, hands, mouths, violence and passionate grief. * hand for a son (unjust deals, pt for a whole) Lavinia transfored into a barbarian (literal origin meaning) cant speak or be understood. Greeks give westerns concept of passionate grief (titus"s loss of sons/ damaged daughter) Original title: the most lamitable tragedy of titus. Lament means you are absolutely soaked/ consumed with grief. Consuming = key word: only when all the kindness has been eaten away does he become a revenger and kills and feeds tamoras sons and proceeds to kill his daughter, consuming own children literally. Rhetoric tragedy: human kind even in greatest extremity can control the howl of wilderness: comes from greek and demands hand gestures & speech, emotions must be expressed 9titus and lavinia cant do this)
