much ado context

Question 1

what was the name for the ranking of people in a patriarchal society?

Answer 1

the natural order

Question 2

what was the cause of christian ideas of patriarchy?

Answer 2

eve tempting adam to eat the apple

Question 3

queen elizabeth _____________ herself

Answer 3

ungenedered

Question 4

queen elizabeth ~ “body of a ____, feeble _____ ; but I have the ______ and _________ of a _____”

Answer 4

feeble
woman
heart
stomach
king

Question 5

what made a ‘good’ renaissance woman?

Answer 5

loyal to her husband
quiet
honouable

Question 6

what was used if women were thought to be witches or talked too much?

Answer 6

scold’s bridle

Question 7

women were a symbol of __________, because the ____ from the _______ of ______ began with her

Answer 7

subjection
Fall
Garden of Eden

Question 8

why were women seen as defective men?

Answer 8

higher water content = sexually incontinent
watery, weak, unreliable

Question 9

where is the story of adam and eve?

Answer 9

genesis three

Question 10

what book inspired the romance between beatrice and benedick?

Answer 10

the courtier by baldassare castiglione

Question 11

what are cuckolds

Answer 11

men depicted with animal horns as a sign their wives had been unfaithful

Question 12

what meanings did “nothing” have

Answer 12

absence of anything
musical notes
female genitalia euphemism
overhearing
to take note

Question 13

what is ungendering?

Answer 13

sexual stereotypes transmuted into the other to lose some of their power

Question 14

what is euphuistic language?

Answer 14

elaborate, embellished, literary devices
between honourable men

Question 15

masques allowed men and women to behave much more _______________

Answer 15

indecently

Question 16

in what activity could women find freedom?

Answer 16

masquerade balls

Question 17

what is symbolic about a woman veiling her head?

Answer 17

hiding their sins beneath a show of virtue

Question 18

who defined the perfect “maid” as not in much discourse, she rarely speaks, and words are few?

Answer 18

John Shirley

Question 19

What was The Wise Woman?

Answer 19

the gendered ideal of marital virtue 1523

Question 20

what factors apply to The Wise Woman?

Answer 20

no fault of his will break my loyalty
my waist is girded with serpents
I wear a golden lock upon my lips

Question 21

an old marriage service stated that women are “to be ______ and ______ in bed and at board”

Answer 21

bonay
buxome

Question 22

who would have played Dogberry?

Answer 22

William Kemp

Question 23

who created the manual about gardening?

Answer 23

Thomas Hill

Question 24

what did gardens encourage?

Answer 24

people to get lost

Question 25

what did gardens create a sense of?

Answer 25

secrecy and seduction

Question 26

List 4 productions

Answer 26

Kenneth Branagh
RSC
Joss Whedon
Sheffield Theatres x Ramp on the Moon

Question 27

what was the purpose of prose?

Answer 27

suitable for comic or low stats characters

Question 28

why would Beatrice and Benedick use prose?

Answer 28

to show their relationship as comedic and notwithstanding their social status

Question 29

what did Elizabethans think about Italy

Answer 29

“the most advanced civilisation” ~ Laura Tosi

Question 30

why is the play being set in Sicily significant?

Answer 30

Was under the rule of the house of Aragon (spain) which established class structures
exotic location meant ideas cold be expressed without censorship