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Critics Flashcards

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WoB

Describe the Carnivalesque point:

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AO4: the Carnivalesque (originated by Mikhail Bakhtin) = social hierarchy is temporarily overthrown.
> Helen Cooper calls the wife, ‘the Carnival to Jerome’s Lent’ - Carnival celebrates life while Lent encourages reflection

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WoB

my favourite point about whether the wife represents a critique of society

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AO4: The Wife doesn’t argue against the austere world, just exists alongside it. She is an ontological metaphor by existing; she is not an argument, merely a representation of irrefutable validity. Her passion for her version of life encapsulates the Carnivalesque.
‘She is happy to keep it in place, but she wants it to accommodate feminine desires’ Dinshaw (1989)

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WoB

Who wrote La Roman de La Rose?

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Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun

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WoB

Who’s structure is Chaucer believed to have copied and from what works?

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Boccaccio’s Decameron

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WoB

What did De Meun create?

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The nag persona

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WoB

An example of Chaucer’s work being original?

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St Jerome’s beliefs were accepted but he uses the wife to prove them wrong

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WoB

What is the significance of St Jerome?

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He defined Biblical misogyny

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TP
Lisa Hopkins quote to support the fact that ‘it defies the social structure of its time - consider Chaucer’s role as court poet’

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‘They are not Caroline in feel… Hard back to considerably older models of drama.’

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TP

Favourite quote from Lisa Hopkins

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‘Dramatist of the heart’

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TP

Name the two main influences and support the evidence

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Romeo and Juliet, ‘young idealistic lovers… Union is too radically exogamous to the small Italian city.’

Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy: letter in blood, (programme from the Globe’s 2014 production)

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TP

Lisa Hopkins point on Elizabethan influence

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‘Radically constituted by the drama of Ford’s youth… cannot be readily pigeonholed as Caroline.’

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TP

Quote from the post doctoral fellow at the Globe (and his name)

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Will Tosh, ‘not averse to the sheer force of gut reaction - although Napolean abolishes incest laws in 1810’

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TP
Name the post doctoral fellow at the Globe who said, ‘not averse to the sheer force of gut reaction - although Napolean abolishes incest laws in 1810’

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Will Tosh

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TP + WoB

Lisa Hopkins describes the womb:

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‘The womb… Was an object daughter after with almost ferocious intensity in Renaissance anatomy theatres.’

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TP

Hopkins on the town of Parma (societal point)

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‘The town of Parma itself that is the real whore.’

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TP

Ford was appreciated during the Romantic period, supporting quote from Coleridge:

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‘Moral sense was gratified by indignation of the dark possibilities of sin.’

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TP

Point to rival/ contract Coleridge’s support

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S.P. Sherman, ‘sinned in his subject matter’

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TP

A critic describing Ford’s main struggle:

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Kauffman, ‘Fors struggles with humanity’s puzzling aspiration to be the architect of its own unhappiness.’

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Who calls Ford a ‘proto-existentialist’?

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Kauffman

20
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Describe Kauffman’s principle of a Fordian Hero

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Calls himself to a role his ‘residual nature will not permit him to fulfil.’

21
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A critic commenting on Hippolita’s adultery and Annabella’s incest:

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Gauer, ‘Hippolita’s adultery and Annabella’s incest precisely upset the good functioning of the social machine.’

22
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TP + WoB

Link the two social orders

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Hopkins ‘Thus does Ford systematically introduce the main social orders that traditionally constitute the community; the priest, the warrior and the merchant.’

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TP

Describe Clerico’s point on blood and society and how it could link to WoB

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Examines the intricate relationship between the literal uses of blood and its metaphorical uses as an indicator of social standing: 'the flow of blood negotiates... The intersection of social, political and sexual values in Parmesn society'
- link to WoB
Social anxiety (shown through multiple marriages for economic stability); as the concept of a merchant class begins to exist and hierarchy shifts after the Black Death.
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TP
Despite it being argued by Hopkins that TP could not be ‘readily pigeonholed as Caroline’ another critic argues that it still makes a strong comment against Caroline Patriarchy:

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Molly Smith claims TP stages an assault on Caroline Patriarchy as Charles’s court was ‘unhealthily introverted’.

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WoB

Who is the Marxist critic?

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Laurie Finke

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WoB –> TP

Quote supporting Finke’s Marxist opinion

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Finke asks whether the text can ever be distinguished between ‘monetary gain and sexual pleasure’

27
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WoB

context point - linking to the aftermath of the Black Death

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Patterson (1991)

‘Social boundaries were breaking down. The wife is then a product of this new order.’

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TP

Hopkin’s on Ford’s focus….

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‘Ford’s focus is love, not society, which intends to exist as a framework for human activity.’

29
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How does director, Donellan, describe the play?

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‘The blurring of boundaries between right and wrong.’

30
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WoB

The Guardian refers to Chaucer as a Proto-feminist, why? (Creates link to TP)

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Women taking control of their own destines

31
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WoB

Quote from the Female Stereotype, York Notes

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‘These are the actions of a women who is fully aware of what the stereotypes about women are and who is willing to use them to her own advantage.’

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WoB

York notes on sex and power

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‘Much of the sec in the text, however, has little to do with desire and a lot to do with power.’

33
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WoB

Name another Marxist critic besides Finke

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Aers

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WoB

Aers Marxist point:

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‘Chaucer is satirising the system which would’ve forced young women to trade economic security with old husbands’

35
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Which critic combines feminine power with Marxism?

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Knight (1986)

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WoB

Knight’s quote, feminine power and Marxism

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Knight (1986) ‘the wife’s clever use of power means she is able to escape male dominance’

37
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WoB

Who makes the psychoanytical critique?

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Sands (1977)

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WoB

Sand’s psychoanalytical quote on the Wife:

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‘Sociopath unable to form meaningful relationships’ Sands (1977)

39
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WoB

Feminist vs. Anti- feminist quote

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Wife is a creation of man therefore, ‘seen as reinforcing anti-feminist views rather than undermining them.’ Hansen (1992)

40
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WoB

Carrington, 2003

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‘Chaucer has no over-arching moral or philosophical intention.’

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