Secondary Criticism Flashcards
What does Duncan Salkeld say about a Shakespearean contemporary audience and their knowledge of madness?
(‘they would know the’) “conventions of a mad person”
What does William Tosh in ‘Shakespeare and Madness’ note about contemporary understandings of the elderly?
they become ‘frantic’
- modern psychology then crystallises this into a psychologically diagnosable rubric (dementia)
What does Duncan Salkeld point out about the body and zodiac signs?
“the body was seen as part of a larger macrocosm” in which “different zodiac signs were thought to have domain over certain parts of the body”
What does Duncan Salkeld note about the eventual aim of the Renaissance mind?
“the Renaissance mind… was created with the purpose of eventual unity with God”
What does Duncan Salkeld note about the relationship between individuals, the body politic, and the king’s social form?
“individuals were subjected to the body politic seen as an embodiment of the king’s social form”
What does Ken Jackson draw attention to in Jonson’s prologue to ‘Every Man in His Humor’?
Jonson’s criticism of Shakespeare for his narrative implausibilities and absurdities to order to reconcile his plots
What does Ayanna Thompson refer to during a 19th-century production of Othello?
“a woman at a nineteenth-century production of Othello… felt compelled to yell to Othello… that ‘she did not do it’”.
What was happening at RSC’s 2014 production of ‘Titus Andronicus’?
- audience members mimicking Othello’s trance by fainting at the play’s visceral detail
