Quotes to link to drama devices Flashcards
Exposition
Key for establishing the play’s central conflict and character relationships.
“If by your art…. wild waters… allay them”
“Had I been… God of power… sunk the sea”
“Dost thou attend me?… obey and be attentive.”
“My library was dukedom large enough”
“Ivy that hid my princely trunk and suck’d the verdure out on’t it”
“cramps…pinches”
“thou strokes’d me”
Metatheatre: PROSPERO
Prospero’s “margic garments” as a DISGUISE
“pluck my magic garment from me” “lie there my art”- Prospero’s costume allows him to transform into the powerful magus and disconnect his crimes from his mortal being.
Metatheatre- HARPY A3S3
Summary: ALL ILLUSION. A theatrical spectacle designed to instil fear into Prospero enemies he remains unseen througout. This messanger as a mouthpiece for Prospero’s revenge, not just anthropocentric but told from a natural world’s response to the ugly traits of mankind.
ECO-CRITICAL: Nature as a power to dole out justice and punish the “morally dubious” courtiers.
Ao3: Harpy, part woman and part vulture which carries a bad omen.
Ao5: Katsan “visual mirror” of the royal situation of the time.
“To Prospero, magic means ABSOLUTE CONTROL”
Ao2: ECO-CRITICAL Ariel’s connection to the elemental world as a “spirit”, transcends the C of B.
Personification of the sea and shores as “incensed” that is angered. “Nature hath caused to belch up you” “Yea, all creatures… against your peace”- collective response from the animal kingdom.
Ao2: CRITICSM OF UPPERLCASS- “enter several strange shapes bringing in a banquet” “You fools… ministers of fate”
Ao1: The presence of Ariel as an avenging harpy marks the culmination of Prospero’s retribution, from P’s perspective A represents justice and natural powers.
METATHEATRE- THE MASQUE A4S1
Ao5: Hazlitt “pretended interference”
Ao3: Improvised performance, royals and courtiers disguise themselves. A Banqueting House was built specifically in Whitehall Palace in 1608- shows James I’s love for masque. Masques were compromised of singing, dancing, acting, music and dialogue. USED TO GLORIFY MONARCHS AND STRENGTHEN THEIR COURT.
Shakespeare NEVER wrote a true masque so A4S1 is an example of him dipping into this genre.
Witchcraft- James I Daemonology, John Dee?? double to P as the supreme magus.
COURT AS A BEACON OF KNOWLEDGE AND POWER, ALIGNS WITH NOTION OF PHILOSOPHER KING THROUGH OWNDERSHIP OF “MINE ART”
Ao2: P- “spirits which mine art…I have from their confines called to enact, my present fancies”= semantic field of servitude as seen through “confined”, and the larger flippant metatheatircal comment “present fancies”, puppet-master of the microcosm of the island
Ferdinand- “This is a most majestic vision and harmoniously charmingly… makes this place paradise” COMPLETE CONTRAST TO “hell is empty and all the devils are here!”- draws attention to the magical/spectacular quality of the island.
Ao1: Exposes P’s fickle nature, representation of the abuse of power in the Jacobean court through his indulgent displays of “art” to eleviate his believed superior position.
METATHEATRE- THE MASQUE A4S1 (JUNO, CERES…)
Ao5:
Ao3:
- Juno is the symbol of marriage and family life in Roman mythology.
- Ceres is the symbol of agriculture, rebirth and abundance- all notions connected to marriage.
Ao2: The united blessing of the union by Juno and Ceres, wishes them prosperity and wealth whilst also explicity tying their marriage to notions of social propriety. Juno wishes them “honour”
Juno- “Honour, riches, marriage blessing…Long continuance and increasing”
Ceres- “Earth’s increase, foison plenty…Barns and Garners were never empty”. RHYMING COUPLETS-
The exclusion of venus- stifled autonomy of the woman, tries to surpress F when he refers to M’s purity.
Ao1:
THE ANTI-MASQUE??
Ao5:
Ao3: An additional masque, usually preceding the main masque, typically introduced for comedic/ grotesque effect.
Ao2:
Ao1:
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