Tempest Genre Quotes Flashcards
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Quotes on Romantic-Comedy
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- Most sure this be the goddess on whom these airs attend - Ferdinand
- How beauteous mankind is – Miranda
- ‘rightful’ ending
- I’ll be wise hereafter - Prospero
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Quotes on Revenge Drama
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- ‘My strong imagination sees a crown dropping upon thy head’ - Antonio
- Knock a nail into his head – Caliban
- If thy Greatness will revenge it on him – Caliban
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Notes on Masque
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- Juno, Iris, Ceres
- Ceres sings about 3 seasons (not winter as Ceres causes it when her daughter is returned to the underworld)
- 3 seasons represent 3 stages of life, Growth, maturation, harvest
- ‘Spongy’ April
- ‘Laslorn’ spring
- ‘Vines of clusterly bunches growing, plants with goodly burdens bowing’ – Ceres
- Mention 20117 RSC stage production, all cast wearing colourful clothes, a generic convention
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Sentence on Masque
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The court masque, an elaborate aristocratic art form uniting music, drama, and visual spectacle and staged in the Stuart court, depicts classical deities in a formal, allegorical style, creating meanings about the heavens and natures blessings in idealised love and marriage.
