ENG220H1 Lecture Notes - Cupid, Fop, Skeleton Key
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Sources for the narrative: cinthio"s hecatommithi, george whetstone"s promos cassandra. The problem comedy is a tragedy that ends in marriage, deals with serious issues. A play about the dark corners of the mind. First performed for james 1 in 1604. Revised whetstone"s play; there is controversy of plagiarism, textual property was ambiguous. The question during this time was is the innovation better than the source as opposed to is it original. Many argued that freud got his theories on psychoanalysis from reading shakespeare. Reflects freud"s ideas of subconscious and unconscious. There is spacialization of sexuality in the play. Sexual energy is hidden but emerges in uncontrollable ways. Symmetrical struggle between the id and the ego in this play. suburb = sub (close to, under) + urbs (city) The reformation origins; henry became the head of the church of england when he founded a new religion away from catholicism; owned what the church owned; had an abundant amount of money.
