TWT

Question 1

Time’s monologue quote?

Answer 1

Impute it not a crime
To me or my swift passage, that I slide
Over 16 years and leave the growth untried
of that wide gap, since it is in my power
To overthrow law and in one self born hour
To plant and overwhelm custom

Question 2

Analysis of that quote?

Answer 2

Shakespeare highlighting his ‘overthrowing’ of neo-classical rules and ‘customs’ (3 unities)
16 rhyming couplets- very crafted speech; can’t ignore the artistry…Shakespeare winking to the audience
Time turns the hourglass upside down during his speech- social order of the first half is being turned upside down

Question 3

Mythic substructure?

Answer 3

Prosperina and Ceres: P taken by Dis for 6 months of year; Ceres, goddess of agriculture, grieves..earth becomes barren; Prosperina emerges for the other 6 months (earth becomes warm and fruitful)

Question 4

Symbolic significance of mythic substructure?

Answer 4

after winter comes spring (permanent loss of Mamillius suggests that loss, like winter, is a permanent part of life)
Lost child and a mother’s grief

Question 5

Perdita apostrophe to Prosperina?

Answer 5

O Prosperina
For the flowers which, frightened, them let fall
From Dis’s Wagon

Question 6

Shakespeare effort to enforce mythic substructure?

Answer 6

Major source of TWT = Greene’s Pandosto: The Triumph of Time

Shakespeare switches around the kingdoms…he wanted Perdita from Sicily (same as Prosperina)

Question 7

Loss of Mamillius and Perdita link to prosperina?

Answer 7

Sicily enters indefineite season of winter… enhanced by Leontes’ grieving occurring in the barren landscape…no heirs/infertility