In-class Notes

6/25/07

*Domestic Farce: a family with many misunderstandings.
*Romantic Comedy: man and woman fall in love, but something is getting in the way of their happiness.
*Scape goat figure: the person in the play (Falstaff) who is made a fool, and who is run out of town often. Usually humiliated at the end.
*Retelling expulsion of figure of noxiousness.

*to say/see/do
-we need to rethink how we say things.
-literature asks us to do this.

*Hamlet says:
-pg. 1307, line 73-74
-"It will be short: the interim is mine; and a man's life's no more than to say 'one'".

*pg. 1310
-Horatio tells Hamlet he has a bad feeling about the fencing match.
-line 184
-"If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the READINESS is all."
-Readiness is the theme of Hamlet.
-The be perfectly there in the moment.