REVENGER'S/LOOT: AO5 Flashcards
1
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RT
Christine GOTTLIEB:
- Women + Bodies
A
- “The skull…wields the uncanny agency of an object”
- Women as having an “ambiguous status as props and actors”
2
Q
RT
Laurie FINKE:
- Women + Sexuality
A
- Gloriana’s skull unites “dialectical images of women - as ideal and as memento mori… a figure which evokes fear and hostility”
- “All women are objects, defined solely by their sexuality”
3
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RT:
Emma SMITH:
- Comedy vs. Tragedy
A
- “The play undercuts moral sententiae with a radical and perverse black comedy”
-> Intrigue Comedy: - Trickster figure directs and deceits to get what they want
-> Manchester Royal Exchange, 2008 - Duke’s body whirled around the stage to “The Sun Has Got His Hat On”
- Emphasise tonally challenging nature
4
Q
RT:
Emma SMITH:
- Court + Sexual Corruption
A
- The court is “a nest of luxurious, self-interested decadence”
- “There are no politics…apart from sexual politics”
5
Q
RT/L
Susan SONTAG:
- Camp
A
- “Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is ‘too much’”
-> RT: Quick, successive deaths at end - Emma Smith: a “structural expression of an aesthetic of exaggeration and excess”
- Masques?
-> L: Has the tropes, but still taken seriously, more tragic than RT? - Comedy is a serious business
6
Q
RT/L
Susan SONTAG:
- Metatheatre
A
“Being as playing a role - it is the furthest extension of the metaphor of life as theatre”
7
Q
KISTNER
A
- RT set more in a time than a place:
-> “a period of time set off from other epochs by its overwhelming evil”
-> Classical Mythology’s 4 Ages of Man: - Golden -> Silver -> Brazen -> Iron
- Vindice etc., S
- Vindice begins moral, but degenerates:
-> As “Vindice’s relationship to the court, the source of corruption, grows stronger,… his virtue declines” - His “acceptance of a guise of evil is his first step downward”
- His “desire to revenge [Gloriana’s] death is no longer motivated by love for her [but] LUST for revenge alone”
