1. 510 class 2--Lecture notes
2. questionnaires
3. name game
4. reports for next time
5. framing the bible and shakespeare with apparatus and history--the renaissance bible and the renaissance shakespeare
6. Both Renaissance and Reformation are about "The book"--printing and bookmaking
1. Bible and classical texts; transformation in communications technology
7. Kiss the book--magic--kiss the book is what Jews do with Torah
1. idea of the book and the writer of the book--Dante, Rev. SB 23--Moses book given by god is book we read
8. Prospero's Books--show section and discuss
9. Bible--"the book"-- is pervasive in Renaissance language, art, politics and culture--their understandings can enrich ours
10. Kings-Divine Right Monarchy.... a myth going back to the Pharoahs and Babylonians and Romans--
1. Bible establishes radical split between Kings-Caesars--and Gods, but this often is overlooked with the idea of anointment and the glorification of Kings
11. Theatricality--the arts; magic--and kingship, ceremony--BELIEF vs. suspension of disbelief
1. Dissimulation and role playing--man playing god; god [king] playing man
2. Representations of God--theatrical, artistic, God as person as king and power
3. godlike characters; states of mind when humans become divine or demonic
4. masques deify individual authorities; roman emperor as god; god as emperor/king/duke
5. masque as royal entertainment
6. God as author, critic, and audience
12. God--anthropologists; religious studies people
1. Bad god and good god
2. Feminist critiques
1. From the _Oxford Companion to the Bible_:
2. Lilith: "A female demon who appears in Isaiah 34.14 as apart of a
3. description of the Lord's day of vengeance. The figure of Lilith may
4. have evolved out of Babylonian demonology. In some postbiblical Jewish
5. midreashic texts, she is depicted as a slayer of infants and women
6. inpgregnancy and childbirth, for which reason amulets were used against
7. her destructive powers. The early medieval _Alphabet of Ben Sira_ draws
8. on traditions that Adama had a first wife who preceded Eve and
9. identifies her with Lilith. Noting that both she and Adam were creted
10. from the earth, Lilith flies away from Adam after unscucessfully
11. demainding that she be regarded as his equal. Feminist readings of this
12. other texts about Lilith have observed that the male authors of the
13. Lilith material created an antithesis to Eve, who is often depicted as
14. more docile and dependent and, unlike Lilith, as a begetter and nurturer of children. These readings also draw positive attention to Lilith's self-reliance and demand for equality in societies in which women were legally and socially subordinated to men."
15. Hence "Lilith Fair"
13. Biblical and Classical mythology linked; Michaelangelo’s Creation images; heroic scenes–renaissance imagination--Sistine Chapel architecture
1. Sistine images--what are these telling us about gods
1. http://www.christusrex.org/www1/sistine/2c-Stars.jpg
2. http://www.christusrex.org/www1/sistine/2-God.jpg
3. http://www.christusrex.org/www1/sistine/8b-Flood.jpg
4. http://www.christusrex.org/www1/sistine/4b-Adam.jpg
5. http://www.christusrex.org/www1/sistine/4d-Adam.jpg
6. http://www.christusrex.org/www1/sistine/6b-Fall.jpg
14. humanism: god and man; man made god; god made man–Pico–become as gods–SB chapter 1
15. magic powers; science--Dr. Faustus cautionary tale; Prospero comes close--liberal arts and architecture
16. Tempest notes
1. Shipwreck 1.1
1. the shipwreck, the chaos–flood, punishment–the Egyptians, the contemporaries of noah, jonah, the disciples in matthew, the story of luke in acts
2. Death by drowning; god as destroyer; creator of leviathan–creation out of the waters
2. Prospero and Miranda 1.2a
1. Deliverance–Prospero’s language–not a hair
2. the illusion of danger; events as instruction and instrumentality–God talking to Noah and to Abraham re: Sodom and to Moses–Miranda as advocate for the victims
3. The hour’s now come–for Revelation, for all to come to fruition, the scales to be lifted
4. prospero his name–father; farther
5. Miranda’s past is like a dream–dark backward and abyss of time–idea of time as repository of loss
6. Foul play and blessedly holp 1.2.63
7. Usurpation by beloved brother–while he remained rapt in secret studies
8. Good wombs bad sons
9. She encouraged him–a cherubin that didst preserve me 1.2.155
10. Providence divine
1. Where was mother; why not kill him
11. He’s tutored her better than other princes could because of vain distractions
12. Accident most strange brings him back to present project; she’s put asleep–needs to court fortune–become Machiavellian; political
3. Prospero and Ariel 1.2b
1. Spirits at command–made the tempest as staging commanded by director–190
2. Description of storm and disposition of victims; fleet sent home
3. Emphasis on time
4. Ariel wants liberty; Prospero gets angry–browbeats Ariel
5. On Sycorax banished from Algiers–who imprisoned Ariel in oak for not obeying her horrid requests, then died and left him
6. Ariel’s murmuring–295; P’s attitude to the ones he’s liberated
7. Dialogues between God and Abraham, God and Moses–reluctant servant
4. P. M. and Caliban 1.2c
1. Slave; the subject being; serves in offices that profit us
2. P. cursing him; Caliban curses back
3. Torments and plagues–the natives of the land
4. Caliban has fallen and punished. Prospero taught him about stars and language; he taught Prospero about the land, springs, etc.
5. P . accuses him of violating honor of his child–
6. His wanting to people island with calibans
7. Prospero viciously accuses C. of being incapable of goodness–God and humans; regret creating them
8. C. accedes to raw power of P’s magic; P’s rage
5. Ferdinand enters 1.2d
1. Contrast with Caliban–music; some god of the island 390
1. Music allays passion and storm…sea change to rich and strange…no mortal business
2. Atmosphere of wonder–Ferdinand re music and Miranda re Ferdinand–he appears to her as a spirit 410; her to her: "O you wonder" 420
3. Issue of divine vs. human–Prospero says "no"
4. I might call him/ a thing divine, for nothing natural I saw so noble
5. The first humans–creation–Adam and Eve
6. Prospero bringing young couple together
7. Then intervening–what happens when God doesn’t?
8. Prospero testing and teasing–telling us what he’s doing 450
9. Threatening conflict as with Caliban–Ferd. Draws–Prospero treats him like Caliban; anger at Miranda; god with Adam and Eve
10. Byplay–Prospero with Ariel, unbeknownst to the children
11. Big Question: what happens in Eden? What is Eden?
6. The royals 2.1
1. Gonzalo on comfort in sorrow–deliverance–the idealist and meliorist–naïve, unselfconscious–he’s reborn–our garments 60
2. Antonio and Sebastian–the cynics and villains and naysayers and reproachers-- but they have wit and insight
3. Alonso’s despair
4. Gonzalo’s vision of plantation–the golden age; eden; the promised land of milk and honey. Colonial endeavor as finding American Eden; virgin territory; colonization as conquest/rape/ reproduction; perfectability–Eden…innocent people 160–trying to distract King from despair–talk nothing
5. Ariel makes them sleep; Antonio and sebastian think they’re most aware and awake…try to stage coup–rebellion–the Israelites; Cain and Abel; Hagar, Esau; Ham and Noah; the Sodomites; the inhabitants of Babel–insurrection–Macbeth
6. No conscience 271–they are almost caught and cover themselves–central theme of temptation and testing
7. The clowns 2.2
1. Another kind of creation–another Eden
2. Storm again–tempest and torment of god’s enemies–antimasque–wound with adders/cloven tongues 13
3. Making a man–creation–not a fish but an islander–islands as eden; paradise
4. Hiding from the force of storm–Cain; misery and company–the dregs of the storm–language of alcohol…Noah and the vine; Lot and his daughters–comfort and deliverance; false courage–ridiculous and partisan–not class but nationality
5. Stephano’s courage, power and magic
6. Creation of religion–the god–misconstrual; birth of eve from the moon calf; deliverance and dance
7. Caliban kneeling to the brave god and his celestial liquor–an alternate magic and spirit–
8. Deliverance on the butt of sack–cf. Prospero118
9. Dropped from heaven; kiss the book
10. Monster demystified–be my god–he’ll sacrifice to Stephano–152
11. Conspiracy–we will inherit here…the promised land
12. Golden Calf–false god…moon calf; happy orgy–freedom from the law
8. Act 3–tests and ordeals; separating the chosen from the unchosen; establishing a genuine legacy and dynasty
1. The lovers’ test 3.1 –his burden is light; her rebellion against father 59 [A and E]–slavery and freedom —egypt; Prospero satisfied 77–better than earlier try with Caliban–bondage and freedom; relate to previous scene
2. The clowns 3.2–lick thy shoe; establishing a hellish hierarchy, but jealousies and power struggles–Ariel torments them; principle of contrapasso–compare to 3.1–the plot
3. Wandering through the island to meet and overthrow Prospero
4. Lords 3.3–straying through maze; magic banquet–temptation; ordeal in wilderness–the quails vs. manna–Ariel makes accusation; demanding repentance–the Joseph story;
5. guilt to bite their spirits 110 –vs. no conscience–fundamental theme of lesson and trial
9. Act 4–rewards and blessings; establishment of dynasty; punishments
1. Abraham, Jacob, Joseph–control the fire in the blood
2. Blessing of fertility, beauty, comfort, marriage, peace, prosperous and honored in issue–Juno 110–Juno’s blessing; Spring and harvest
3. The foul conspiracy returns
4. Prospero’s qualification–in time; succession; mutability
5. More temptation and punishment of the clowns–trapped by garments–the coat of many colors
10. Act 5–the next generation
1. Time approaches
2. Forgiveness–Ariel like Abraham: rarer action in virtue than in vengeance–this is Joseph
3. Minds restored–shall be themselves
4. Prospero’s abdication; breaking staff and drowning book
5. Judgement offered and penance and transformation–forgeiveness; self revelation; release of Ariel; all losses redeemed–148
6. Most high miracle–the love of M and F–godly creatures; bigger world; going to Egypt
7. Drop a blessed crown
8. The clowns learn nothing–it was all fortune
9. Caliban agrees to "seek for grace" and he too recognizes his mistakes–293
10. Prospero asks forgiveness form the audience
17. Prep for next time