CRITICISMS Flashcards
“The idea of tragedy as the fall from prosperity to wretchedness”
David Kastan
“Tragedy, for Shakespeare, is the genre of uncompensated suffering”
David Kastan
David Kastan: “The ___ of ____ as the fall from ______ to ______”
Idea
Tragedy
Prosperity
Wretchedness
David Kastan: “____, for Shakespeare, is the _____ of ______ _______”
Tragedy
Genre
Uncompensated
Suffering
People take “a cruel or sadistic pleasure” in characters pain and suffering
A. D. Nuttall
The pleasure of tragedy, the “basic collision between terrible matter and a delighted response”
A. D. Nuttall
A. D. Nuttall: people take “a ___ or _____ ______” in characters _____ and _______
Cruel Sadistic Pleasure Pain Suffering
A. D. Nuttall: the ____ of ____, the “basic _____ between terrible ____ and a _____ _______”
Pleasure Tragedy Collision Matter Delighted Response
Tragedies are “preeminently the story of one person, the ‘hero’”
A. C. Bradley
“Essentially a tale of suffering and calamity conducting to death”
A. C. Bradley
A. C. Bradley: ____ are “______ the ____ of one ______, the ‘____’”
Tragedies Preeminently Story Person Hero
A. C. Bradley: “____ a ___ of _____ and ____ ________ to ____”
Essentially Tale Suffering Calamity Conducting Death
In King Lear, “madness is to some degree a punishment or doom,” which corresponds to the adage “those whom Jupiter wishes to destroy, he first drives mad”
Maynard Mack
Lear, in his madness, gives us “free yet relevant associations,” particularly about “the corruption of the Jacobean social system”
Maynard Mack
Maynard Mack: In King Lear, “___ is to some ______ a ________ or ____,” which _____ to the _____, “those whom ______ wishes to ______, he first _____ mad”
Madness Degree Punishment Doom Corresponds Adage Jupiter Destroy Drives
Maynard Mack: Lear, in his ______, gives ___ “ _____ yet _____ associations,” particularly about the “______ of the ______ _____ system”
Madness Us Free Relevant Corruptions Jacobean Social
Femininity is presented as “a series of disturbed images”
Carol Rutter
Female cursing is threatening because it reflects ideas of a “Fury-ous authority beyond the male control”
Carol Rutter
Lear “appropriated women’s discourse” much earlier on, when he “fell to cursing,” which is “the language of political exclusion,” and “frustration rhetoricized”
Carol Rutter
Carol Rutter: _____ is presented as “a _____ of _____ ______”
Femininity
Series
Disturbed
Images
Carol Rutter: Lear “_______ women’s _______” much earlier on, when he “____ to ______,” which is “the ______ of ______ ______,” and “_______ _______”
Appropriates Discourse Fell Cursing Language Political Exclusion Frustration Rhetoricized
Carol Rutter: Female ______ is ______ because it _____ ideas of a “_______ authority _____ the ____ control”
Cursing Threatening Reflects Fury-ous Beyond Male
Goneril and Regan “now assume the male voice, the male space Lear abandons”
Carol Rutter
Carol Rutter: Goneril and _____ “now ____ the male ____, the male _____ Lear _____”
Regan Assume Voice Space Abandons
