Critic quotes Flashcards
(19 cards)
PL
Blake
“Milton was of the devil’s party”
PL
Dr Johnson
“Milton had a Turkish contempt for women”
PL
Batt
“Milton seeks to redefine classical heroism in christian terms”
PL
Reid
“error is a lapse of the mind and, like nonsense, cannot be understood”
PL
Voltaire
“In all the other poems love is a vice, in Milton only it is a virtue”
AIH
Bose (separate spheres)
“by the end traditional separate spheres remained inviolate”
AIH
Bose (problem of women)
“Wilde mocks society’s confinement of women… but fears self-determining women’s power”
AIH
Bose (Lady C)
“Lady Chiltern’s abandonment of her principles id the erasure of the feminine perspective, not it’s broadening”
AIH
Bose (fear of women)
“A deep seated, incurrable fear of women motivates the play”
AIH
R. Allen Cove
“the nature of masks… allows one to play numerous identities”
Tempest
Green (P power)
“Prospero is the major source of power in the Tempest”
Tempest
Coleridge
Caliban as a “noble being”
Tempest
Trevor R. Griffiths
“Caliban is lost without the civilising influence exerted on him by Prospero”
Tempest
Daniel
“Prospero’s art is to achieve supremacy over the natural world by holy magic”
Tempest
Robert Wilson
Prospero “is the controller, the manipulator”
Tempest
McFarland
“Gonzalo is a speaker of a certain truth”
Tempest
Orgel
“Repentance in The Tempest is a largely unachieved goal”
Tempest
Kermode
“Miranda is inexperienced but not naive”
Tempest
Allan
“Shakespeare dramatises the handover of power and responsibility from one generation to the next”
