PPT-Electra – a revenge play

Themes to discuss and stage Revenge and its effect on the revenger Bloodlust death and tragedy Fate and destiny Greek religion Family relationships mothers sons daughters Murder death destruction. The Elizabethan Age. and. Hamlet. Characteristics. A melancholy , hesitant hero/avenger. A villain . Complex plotting. Murder (typically from sexual motives). Sexual obsession/lust related to the desire for revenge. Man with a plan or just a ‘mad’ man?. Themes. What is madness?. Power (love, sex, corruption of, desire of). Revenge. Murder. Women (role, view). Deception/Trust. Certainty/Uncertainty. Action vs. Reaction and the need to act. Women in Greek Tragedy. Medea. : The Alien and mysterious . Questions about . Medea. How did she meet Jason?. Where did she meet him?. Why did she help him?. How did she help him?. What were the consequences of her helping him?. Metatheatricality. 7. th. October 2013. 1. Lionel Abel, . Metatheatre. (1963). Some of the plays I refer to in this book can be classified as instances of the play-within-a-play, but this term suggests only a device, and not a definite form. I designate a whole range of plays as . By Sophocles. Play Information. Originally written in ~400 BC. This adaptation was first performed September 11, 1997. This play is a Greek tragedy. Plot Summary. Electra is mourning the death of her father who was killed by her mother, Clytemnestra, and her lover . “Say, Mean, Matter” Paragraphs. Format Review. Say. Mean. Matter. This is a direct quote . of what. the text says. . What does the text say? . What happened? . * Must cite text, have a lead-in introducing the quote, or paraphrase.. Elizabethan. Jacobean. Revenge Tragedy. Elizabethan Drama is simply the genre of theatre originating in England during the latter half of the 16th Century, being written and performed chiefly during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I from 1558-1603. It includes, but is in no way limited to, the works of William Shakespeare (his historical plays and comedies as well as his tragedies). . Act I, Scene v. Setting. “The battlements”. Significantly, . away. from Marcellus and Horatio; Hamlet and the ghost are alone. The ghost finally identifies himself as being old Hamlet (“I am thy father’s spirit” – line 9). Tradition of the revenge play. Kyan, Deepak, Jacob . Hamlet follows the conventions of the traditional revenge play both in its Christian themes, supernatural elements to the plot, as well as unintentional plot development/involvement.. vocab. http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/earlycrit.html. Swinburne . “The . single characteristic of Hamlet’s innermost nature is by no means irresolution or hesitation or any form of weakness, but rather the strong conflux of contending . Elizabethan. Jacobean. Revenge Tragedy. Elizabethan Drama is simply the genre of theatre originating in England during the latter half of the 16th Century, being written and performed chiefly during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I from 1558-1603. It includes, but is in no way limited to, the works of William Shakespeare (his historical plays and comedies as well as his tragedies). . Before we read…. Thinking about our learning goal…. I . can draw evidence from literary and informational texts to support analysis (as related to writing an analysis of . Hamlet. ). Before we read…. Published . in 1592 but probably written and first performed in the late 1580s; a play called . Jeronimo. was certainly performed at the Rose theatre in 1592. Generally attributed to Thomas Kyd (1558-94), though there is no contemporary mention of Kyd’s authorship of the play until 1612. Hamlet by William Shakespeare Hamlet is a play that has fascinated audiences and readers since it was first written in around 1601-1604 The play centers around Hamlet’s decision whether or not to avenge the murder of his father, the King of Denmark. This weight of this decision drives all the other action and relationships in the play.