D,R & T critical quotations Flashcards
Ann Barton (T) “will lend…”
“Extraordinarily obliging work of art that will lend itself to almost any interpretation.”
Bloom (T) “no audience…”
“no audience have ever liked Prospero.”
Virginia Mason Woolf (T) safe and appropriate
“tells us the play was considered safe and appropriate to perform before the king.”
Exhard Auberlen (T) “restoration audiences…”
“restoration audiences saw the play as a celebration of the restored monarchy….
an affirmation that the monarchy is the natural form of government.”
Margot Atwood (T)
“special effects guy”
(Ariel)
Ibid (T) “anxiety is..”
“Anxiety is aroused and transformed by Prospero… into obedience”
Curt Breight (T) “mechanism”
“Magic… mechanism of political control.”
Terrence Hawkins (T) “the colonist…”
“The colonist imposes shape of his own culture.”
Interpretating P article (T) ambivalent
“Prospero’s authority is ambivalent.”
Gail Finley (ADH) “Ibsen was widely…”
“Ibsen was widely credited with virtually inventing the emancipated woman”
Michael Meyers (ADH) Helmer
“His security depends upon feeling superior”
“Helmer is shown to be weak”
Simon Avery (CR) “Particularly complex…”
“particularly complex thinker about the position of women in society.”
“a critique of dominant masculinity”
Twice, No Thank You John
Prospero = “Representation of…”
“Representation of the inherently flawed human condition.”
Prospero = “The…pat
patriarchal oppresser”
Virginia Woolf (CR) “The pressure of a…”
“The pressure of a tremendous faith clamps together these little songs.”
