The Rivals and WOB Critics Flashcards
OCR guided reading Pack (marriage market)
“The Rivals is also a play concerned with the robust and practical aspects of the marriage market”
Fradenburg (read women)
“We must assume that the Wife of Bath is based on one or more real women”
John Finlayson (copulation- WOB)
“She’s made sex into a metaphorically financial obligation in marriage: the husband’s copulation is paying a debt to his wife”
S.H. Rigby (social life)
“Medieval literature cannot be used directly to read off the reality of medieval social life”
Michael Billington (melt)
“Scenes melt into each other as we watch Sheridan’s timeless satire on the caprices of passion”
Malcolm Hebron (sacrificing)
“We might see the wife as sacrificing her femininity in pursuit of a feminist cause”
Nicole Smith (interlinked)
“For the Wife of Bath, money, sex and marriage are all interlinked and none can exist without the other”
Sally Kinnes (memorable)
“It is Chaucer’s characters who are more memorable than their tales”
Michael Billington (Faulkland)`
“The self torturing Faulkland, forever testing the fidelity of his beloved Julia, mixes the neurotic and the erotic”
Thomas Moore (whims)
“overcharged most of his persons with whims and absurdities, for which the circumstances they are engaged in, afford but a very disproportionate vent”
Dr Johnson (Lydia)
“Lydia is a young woman to be reckoned with, her feistiness and resourcefulness is a taste of things to come”
