Malfi N Sc Flashcards
Minor adjustment to status quo lol
Radical levellers
1610: James to parliament
Kings are justly called gods
Demythologises power?
David Cecil 1949
Far more powerful than good
Lee Bliss 1983
Personal happiness at the expense of public stability
Rupert Brooke 1916
Most essentially and significantly themselves
Jacqueline Pearson 1980
Significance of her death can be explored
Travis Bogard 1955
Ultimately no clarifying philosophy is possible
David Gunby 1972
Salvation and damnation are ever-present realities
G. K. Hunter
A mode of human experience rather than as a country
Catherine Belsey
Valorises women’s equality
Michael Billington
Attack on a society that elevates crude energy and muscular materialism above delicacy of feeling
Morbid turn of mind or
A revelation
Michael Billington 2002
Lies we all need to sustain our precarious existence
John Peter 1996
A sombre, Darwinian tragedy
Brooks Atkinson 1947
pitiless analysis of character
Elia Kazan 1947
Poetic tragedy
Elia Kazan’s notebook
Blanche is dangerous. She is destructive… this makes Stanley right!
Hauptman 1990
Beautifully, uniquely theatrical
Konlin 2008
Sexual politics
Christoper Bigsby 1984
Culture in a state of crisis
1985 Frank Wigham
A desperate expression of the desire to evade degrading association with inferiors
1946 Brecht
Tis pity she’s a whore prologue — incest
Christopher Innes, 1995)
The ambiguous nature of sexuality,
the betrayal of faith,
the corruption of modern America,
the over-arching battle of artistic sensitivity against physical materialism.”
