Day Three Handout MSND ENGL 305 Dr. Fike Reminders: 1) Your paper proposal is due next time. Any questions about what you need to do? 2) For next time, look at the Analysis Paper assignment sheet. It is posted under Term Project and is also in the Day Three PowerPoint. MSND Finish day two discussion: chart MSND Passages Rhyme: Why is 45% of written in rhyming verse? In other words, how is the MSND in sync with its content? play’s form Bottom’s experience: intrapsychic or extrapsychic—the mystic’s dilemma. Synesthesia—how does it relate to Bottom? name—significance? Bottom’s Whose dream IS it? Historical elements: Bad weather Marriage Elizabeth in audience? Hertford James Dudley Elizabeth vs. Mary Theseus background information: What is the key point? What is “complementarity”? the imagination: how do you respond to the questions at the end of Theseus’s speech on the PowerPoint (bullets below)? What is basic point in response to Theseus’s Hippolyta’s statement? Are there differences between the poet and the lunatic or the lover? What does the poet DO? How does Theseus contradict himself? What is his attitude toward art, as manifested in his selection of playlet? What is art? Toward the story that the lovers have Hippolyta’s attitude toward told about their night in the woods? What is the role of imagination in viewing the playlet? video. Pyramus and Thisbe
MSND Day Three Handout ENGL 305 Dr. Fike Reminders: 1) Your paper proposal is due next time. Any questions about what you need to do? 2) For next time, look at the Analysis Paper assignment sheet. It is posted under Term Project and is also in the MSND Day Three PowerPoint. Finish day two discussion: MSND chart Passages Rhyme: Why is 45% of MSND written in rhyming verse? In other words, how is the play’s form in sync with its content? Bottom’s experience: intrapsychic or extrapsychic—the mystic’s dilemma. Synesthesia—how does it relate to Bottom? Bottom’s name—significance? Whose dream IS it? Historical elements: Bad weather Marriage Elizabeth in audience? Hertford James Dudley Elizabeth vs. Mary Theseus background information: What is the key point? What is “complementarity”? Theseus’s speech on the imagination: how do you respond to the questions at the end of the PowerPoint (bullets below)? What is Theseus’s basic point in response to Hippolyta’s statement? Are there differences between the poet and the lunatic or the lover? What does the poet DO? How does Theseus contradict himself? What is his attitude toward art, as manifested in his selection of playlet? What is Hippolyta’s attitude toward art? Toward the story that the lovers have told about their night in the woods? What is the role of imagination in viewing the playlet? Pyramus and Thisbe video.
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