You with your precious eyes, you're blind to the corruption of your life, to the house you live in, those you live with� who are your parents?
OEDIPUS
Said by: Tiresias
Significance: Sight and blindness, light vs. dark
My case is difference. Unexpected trouble has crushed my soul. It's over now; I take no joy in life. My friends I want to die. My husband, who was everything to me�how well I know it�is the worst of men.
MEDEA
Said by: Medea
Significance: Lamenting the lack of power as a woman in society
My Lord, as I was sewing in my closet, Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced, No hat upon his head, his stockings fouled.
HAMLET
Said by: Ophelia
Significance: Theme of feigning madness
Because this order did not come from the gods above nor those below and I didn't think that any edict issues by you had the power to override the unwritten and unfailing law of the gods.
ANTIGONE
Said by: Antigone
Significance: Divine law vs. mortal law in Greek theatre
As dear to me was Horatio, As yours, or yours, my lord to you. My guiltless son was by Lorenzo slain, and by Lorenzo and that Balthazar. Am I at last revenged thoroughly, upon whose souls may heavens be yet avenged with greater far than these afflictions
THE SPANISH TRAGEDY
Said by: Hieronimo
My mind is spinning. I think it is wrong for me to give in, but if I don't, I'm afraid I may be caught in a fatal web.
ANTIGONE
Said by: Creon
Significance: Creon realizes too late that he is wrong, and accepts that his fate is inevitable
Here is Thebes I bound to the fawn-skin to the women's flesh and armed their hands with shafts of ivy. For I have come to refute that slander spoken by my mother's sisters.
THE BACCHAE
Said by: Dionysis
Significance: Vengeance, divine law, honor, justice, and respect for the gods
O God, all come true, all burst to light! O light, now let me look my last on you! I stand revealed at last� cursed in my birth, cursed in marriage...
OEDIPUS
Said by: Oedipus
Significance: Reversal and recognition of unavoidable fate
I've reasons of all kinds, but let first among them be allowing tyrants, unavenged, to snatch me from my family's grasp, without you seeking due revenge.
FUENTE OVEJUNA
Said by: Laurencia
Significance: Talking to the town about gathering everyone to fight against the tyrants through the power of masses
For they shall yet belie thy happy years. That say thou art a man. Diana's lip is not more smooth and dubious; thy small pipe is as the maiden's organ, shrill and sound, and all is semblative a woman part.
TWELFTH NIGHT
Said by: Duke Orsino
Significance: Pointing out the feminine features of Cesario, demonstrating the construction of gender in the play through words (because of all male actors)
Seems, madam? Nay, it is. I know not 'seems' tis not alone in my inky cloak, good-mother, nor customary suits of solemn black, nor windy suspiration of forced breath.
HAMLET
Said by: Hamlet
Significance: Grief and being isolated
See'st thrust this handkerchief besmeared with blood? It shall not from me till I take revenge. Seest thou those wounds that yet are bleeding fresh?
THE SPANISH TRAGEDY
Said by: Hieronimo
Significance: Hieronimo wants vengeance for his son after he finds him at the tree
You terrify most people and they are afraid to confront you. I on the other hand can go about the city unrecognized, and I have heard people weeping for this young woman.
ANTIGONE
Said by: Haemon
Significance: Creon's hubris; even Creon's son is showing him that the people are on the side of Antigone
You are my sister. This was my father's poniard. Do you see? I'd be loath to see't rusty, cause twas his. I would have you to give o'er these chargeable revels. A visor and a mask are whispering room.
THE DUCHESS OF MALFI
Said by: Ferdinand
Significance: Ferdinand arguing against his sister's sexuality
There is a fair behavior in thee, captain, and though that nature with a beauteous wall, doth oft close in pollution.
TWELFTH NIGHT
Said by: Viola
Significance: Appearance being the same as reality, what people see is what they assume is real
The misery of us that are born great! We are forced to woo, because none dare woo us.
THE DUCHESS OF MALFI
Said by: The Duchess
Make me a willow cabin at your gate and call upon my soul within the house, write loyal cantons of condemned love, and sing them loud even in the dead of night.
TWELFTH NIGHT
Said by: Viola
Tell me when did you ever prove yourself a prophet? When the Sphinx that chanting Fury kept her deathwatch here, why silent then, not a word to set our people free?
OEDIPUS
Said by: Oedipus
Eteocles who died defending a city, a great warrior and patriot, seal be buried in a tomb with all the honors appropriate for the most heroic of our dead.
ANTIGONE
Said by: Creon
Try what repentance can. What can it not? Yet what can it when one cannot repent? O wretched state. O bosom black as death, of limed soul that struggling to be free art more engaged. Help angels! Make assay.
HAMLET
Said by: Claudius
Less hackneyed the way I said it. And now so no one will say I didn't warn him (Turning to the audience in tones of a town crier), I hereby give public notice to everybody, voters, citizens, all my friends and acquaintances. Don't trust me!
PSEUDOLUS
Said by: Pseudolus
Within the bowels of these elements. Where we are tortured and remain forever. Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed. In one self place for where we are is hell.
DOCTOR FAUTUS
Said by: Mephistopheles
Oh, most powerful Occident, beautiful rich America, who live impoverished amid, these prodigal bounties of wealth, put aside this blasphemous cult.
THE LOA TO THE DIVINE NARCISSUS
Said by: Religion
And I must be a country wife still too, I find, for I cant like a city one be rid of my must husband and do what I list.
THE COUNTRY WIFE
Said by: Mrs. Pinchwife
PLATO'S REPUBLIC
Written by: Plato
ARISTOTLE'S POETICS
Written by: Aristotle
OEDIPUS
Written by: Sophocles
ANTIGONE
Written by: Sophocles
MEDEA
Written by: Euripedes
THE BACCHAE
Written by: Euripedes
PSEUDOLUS
Written by: Plautus
THE LITTLE CLAY CART
Written by: Sudraka
ATSUMORI
Written by: Motokiyo
THE SPANISH TRAGEDY
Written by: Thomas Kyd
DOCTOR FAUSTUS
Written by: Marlowe
HAMLET
Written by: Shakespeare
TWELFTH NIGHT
Written by: Shakespeare
DUCHESS OF MALFI
Written by: Webster
FUENTE OVEJUNA
Written by: Lope de Vega
LOA TO THE DIVINE NARCISSUS
Written by: Ines de la Cruz
THE COUNTRY WIFE
Written by: Wycherley
6 Elements of Tragedy (Aristotle)
1. Plot
2. Character
3. Diction
4. Reasoning
5. Spectacle
6. Music
Please call dad, rats sing music
Most important element of a tragedy
Plot
(includes reversal and recognition)
Example of plot in Oedipus
Fate vs. free will
Oedipus thought he could escape fate
Prophecy that Oedipus would grow up to kill his father and mother
Jocasta and Laius attempt to get rid of their son but fate triumphs
Why does Plato dislike drama?
Drama is imitation and imitation is bad
Imitation makes citizens worse
Education is more important
Plato's theory of forms
Ideal
Reality
Image
I ran intensely