M4M general critics

Question 1

According to Stevenson, the play…

Answer 1

‘followed patterns which the King had publicly advocated.’

Question 2

Stevenson on James I

Answer 2

‘he thought of himself as an intellectual’

Question 3

According to Stevenson?

Answer 3

Shakespeare ‘mined’ the Basicillon Doron for intellectual thought into the drama so as to praise his new ‘dramatic patron’

Question 4

Declan Donnellan

Answer 4

‘It is a play about how the government controls us’

According to him, what does gov. and church use?Shame

Question 5

Everett on venereal disease and death?

Answer 5

“Venereal disease, in the 16th century beginning its steady spread across Europe, must have seemed unanswerable evidence that the wages of sin is death”

Question 6

What did Fiona Dunlop say the play is primarily concerned with?

Answer 6

‘questions of ‘government’.’

Question 7

What does Mortimer say about the play asking questions?

Answer 7

‘A great play doesn’t answer questions it asks them’

Asks questions of what society should be like? Experienced through juxtapositions whore v nun sexuality v extreme religion

Golden mean Aristotle