Wednesday, January 24, 2007

I'm sick and cranky

Ahoy! I'm not feeling well this evening and I have a terrible cough so I'm going to keep this blog a little on the short side. I finished reading The Country Wife this afternoon which I thought was interesting but a little confusing. Maybe I missed the footnote...but I had no idea what the heck cuckolding was until after I read the play. I had a general idea but after I looked it up the play made much more sense! I am beginning to notice a pattern within these 18th century plays for having more than one plot, which I find make the plays more enjoyable to read. Horner's deceitfulness about his "capabilities", Pinchwife and Margery's relationship as a married couple, and Harcourt and Alithea's relationship are the three plots found in the play. I thought it was hilarious how Pinchwife wound up telling Margery everything he didn't want her to know, and I enjoyed that it was an ongoing joke throughout the play.
This play was very sexual in nature and I can see how it would have been scandalous to have preformed at the time. Horner's character was completely sexually driven, and the women (Margery especially) also had a keen interest in sex.

Sunday, January 21, 2007

marriage

Hey everyone, I guess it is time for blog #2. I really enjoyed Marriage a la Mode. I thought that the combination of tragedy and comedy really worked for the play. I thought that the comic plot was a much more accurate depiction of relationships in actual life. Real life romances can be full of passion in the beginning, and then dwindle as relationships continue. I think that in many relationship passion turns into friendship and companionship. The lovers in the tragic plot depict how many relationships being, and the comic plot depicts lovers as time goes on. The poetic language of the tragic lovers was interesting to read, and I enjoyed the rhyming couplets. It was interesting that the language was so structured and smooth, while their relationship was complicated.

Monday, January 15, 2007

Ah-ha! I have mastered this device. This is actually my second blog entry because I made a a blog a few days ago but I forgot both my user name and password and I didn't have the patience to go through the process of finding it so I started a new one.
I'm not sure how I feel about posting my thoughts for just anyone to read, but hey It's for marks so I guess I'll have to deal with it! Because I have been swamped with school work, and because I just bought the text book today, I can't talk about the reading. I'm just going to use this entry to say "howdy" to all you folks out there.