Sunday, March 26, 2006

 

Review for Quiz Numero Dos (quiz #2)

Hey Bardolitors--here we go,

1) What King Lear see's in every travail--Filial Ingratitude
2) Rapid excange of insulting terms--Flyting
3) According to Northrop Frye: what are the most important words in Lear--nature, nothing, fool
4) Jake/Jaques--outhouse
5) Why does the fool fade-out so soon in King Lear--Lear becomes the fool
6) Definition of Theophany--divine showing forth of the world
7) Deus Ex Machina--God from the Machine
8) Jan Kott--says that the stage should be absolutely bare when Gloucester takes his "big" jump off Dover Cliffs
9) Cymbeline Themes--appearance, fidelity, redemption
10) Ted Hughes greatest Theme from Shakespeare--unconditional love offered by the female to the ungrateful male
11) Frye says--All's Well that Ends Well doesn't follow comedic conventions, its a reversal of conventions
12) The Poet known in Pastoral Conventions--the Shepherd
13) According to Hughes--the image of the Boar persists through-out Shakespeare
14) What is the symbol for what both Gloucester/Lear curse--the womb, where the 3 tragic roads meet, never to be born
15) In Pure Tragedy--2nd best is to die, 1st is to have never been born (i.e. Lear, Brother's Karamotsov, Book of Job)
16) The 1st tragic character to survive--Posthumous in Cymbeline
17) What is the main concern of Romance--life the hero out of the tragic plane, transcendence of tragedy
18) How many reversals/recognitions occur in Cymbeline--24
19) "Like flies to the Gods"--Gloucester
20) "Sermons in stones"--Duke Senior
21) What does tragedy have the weight of--Realism
22) Bertram will only marry Helena if--she gets a ring, or becomes pregnant (either from him of course)
23) Where does the title Measure for Measure come from--the Bible
24) The deer incident in the forest of Arden with Jaques--he is a melancholiac
25) What is the trifector of a Melacholiac--metaphors of Time, Death, and Acting
26) Why is Cymbeline a misleading title--He is only a minor character in the play
27) Comedy of Errors--Physical Comedy and one of W.S.'s earliest comedic plays

Break a Leg.

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