REVENGER'S/LOOT: AO5 Flashcards

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RT
Christine GOTTLIEB:

  • Women + Bodies
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  • “The skull…wields the uncanny agency of an object”
  • Women as having an “ambiguous status as props and actors”
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RT
Laurie FINKE:

  • Women + Sexuality
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  • Gloriana’s skull unites “dialectical images of women - as ideal and as memento mori… a figure which evokes fear and hostility”
  • “All women are objects, defined solely by their sexuality”
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RT:
Emma SMITH:

  • Comedy vs. Tragedy
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  • “The play undercuts moral sententiae with a radical and perverse black comedy”
    -> Intrigue Comedy:
  • Trickster figure directs and deceits to get what they want
    -> Manchester Royal Exchange, 2008
  • Duke’s body whirled around the stage to “The Sun Has Got His Hat On”
  • Emphasise tonally challenging nature
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RT:
Emma SMITH:

  • Court + Sexual Corruption
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  • The court is “a nest of luxurious, self-interested decadence”
  • “There are no politics…apart from sexual politics”
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RT/L
Susan SONTAG:

  • Camp
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  • “Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is ‘too much’”
    -> RT: Quick, successive deaths at end
  • Emma Smith: a “structural expression of an aesthetic of exaggeration and excess”
  • Masques?
    -> L: Has the tropes, but still taken seriously, more tragic than RT?
  • Comedy is a serious business
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RT/L
Susan SONTAG:

  • Metatheatre
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“Being as playing a role - it is the furthest extension of the metaphor of life as theatre”

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KISTNER

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  • RT set more in a time than a place:
    -> “a period of time set off from other epochs by its overwhelming evil”
    -> Classical Mythology’s 4 Ages of Man:
  • Golden -> Silver -> Brazen -> Iron
  • Vindice etc., S
  • Vindice begins moral, but degenerates:
    -> As “Vindice’s relationship to the court, the source of corruption, grows stronger,… his virtue declines”
  • His “acceptance of a guise of evil is his first step downward”
  • His “desire to revenge [Gloriana’s] death is no longer motivated by love for her [but] LUST for revenge alone”
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