Cymbeline: Perspective Secondary Criticism Flashcards
When was Descartes’ ‘Meditations on First Philosophy’ published?
1641
What did Descartes probe and what was his aim?
- probed epistemological questions
- based his argument on a search for true knowledge that would withstand skeptical agitations
What is the centre of Descartes’ methodology and what two quotes demonstrate his distinction between belief of knowing and true ‘knowing’ of knowledge?
- he centralises his methodology on the scenario of a dream through which he can make this critical distinction between the belief of knowledge and true ‘knowing’ of knowledge
- knowing of knowledge - “I am here, seated by the fire”
- the belief of knowledge (as experienced in a dream): “I dreamt… that I was dressed and seated near the fire, whilst in reality I was lying undressed in bed!”
What quote from Romeo and Juliet might imply that Shakespeare premeditated the distinction that Descartes makes?
Mercutio accuses that “dreamers often lie”, Romeo asserts “they do dream things true”
Katharine Eisaman Maus tackles the diverse considerations of ‘inwardness’ during the early modern period. What do Ann Jones and Peter Stallybrass suggest about the concept in the early modern period?
“the supposedly ‘private’ sphere… can be imagined only through its similarities and dissimilarities to the public world”
What is the notable difference in Elijah Moshinsky’s 1982 production?
Posthumus’ striking actually renders Innogen unconscious
What does Raphael Lyne highlight about the way in which Innogen accommodates the limitation of her sight?
- through accompanying metaphor and linguistic poeticism
What does the entirety and Jacques Derrida’s theory of deconstruction rest on?
the difference between the sonic and visual receptions of ‘différance’, in which sound becomes a signifier discordant to the signified, which Posthumus suffers in a similar fashion
What aphorism from ‘The Tempest’ gains an overtone of meta-theatrical self-consciousness in light of the fact that the experience of theatre shares an affinity with the experience of a dream as Descartes would have it?
Prospero’s famous aphorism from ‘The Tempest’, “we are such stuff/ As dreams are made on”
When was Samuel Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria published?
1817
What is the relevant quote from the Biographia Literaria?
“to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment”
What is the relevant reasoning behind the quotation from the Biographia Literaria?
an audience knows themselves to be in the theatre, but must hold some belief in the knowledge that there is a degree of reality on stage
Where does Michael J. G. Gray-Fow suggest Shakespeare may have got his knowledge of the trope of the hostility towards stepmothers?
Cicero and Virgil, read as part of his classical education
When was ‘The Ambassadors’ painted by Hans Holbein?
1533
