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'Stupid Midas'
‘Stupid Midas’ Visualising Musical Judgement and Tim Shephard Patrick McMahon Moral Judgement in Italy ca.1520 University of Sheffield 1. Musical Judgement and Moral Judgement 3. A) Cima da Conegliano, The Judgement Sat at the centre of the painting in contemporary elite of Midas, oil on panel, 1513-17. Statens The Ancient Discourse dress, Midas looks straight at the viewer, caught at the exact moment of formulating his faulty musical judgement. Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen. Harmony is governed by proportion, and so is human tem- perament; thus music can affect human behavior ‘For rhythm and harmony penetrate deeply into the mind and take a most powerful hold on it, and, if education is good, bring an impart grace and beauty, if it is bad, the reverse’ (Plato, Republic) Music should therefore play a role in moral education Suggestive ‘music has indeed the power to induce a certain character of soul, and if it can do that, then An older, more position of clearly it must be applied to education’ (Aristotle, Politics) severe Tmolus, in Pan’s bow more modest makes a direct Good musical judgement engenders good moral judgement contemporary link between ‘the proper training we propose to give will make a man quick to perceive the shortcomings attire, also his musician- of works of art or nature …; anything beautiful he will welcome gladly … and so grow in true goodness of character; anything ugly he will rightly condemn and dislike’ (Plato, Republic) interrogates the ship and his viewer with his sexuality. The Renaissance Discourse gaze. -
The Relationship of the Dramatic Works of John Lyly to Later Elizabethan Comedies
Durham E-Theses The relationship of the dramatic works of John Lyly to later Elizabethan comedies Gilbert, Christopher G. How to cite: Gilbert, Christopher G. (1965) The relationship of the dramatic works of John Lyly to later Elizabethan comedies, Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/9816/ Use policy The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that: • a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in Durham E-Theses • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. Please consult the full Durham E-Theses policy for further details. Academic Support Oce, Durham University, University Oce, Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HP e-mail: [email protected] Tel: +44 0191 334 6107 http://etheses.dur.ac.uk 2 THE RELATIONSHIP OP THE DRAMATIC WORKS OP JOHN LYLY TO LATER ELIZABETHAN COMEDIES A Thesis Submitted in candidature for the degree of Master of Arts of the University of Durham by Christopher G. Gilbert 1965 The copyright of this thesis rests with the author. No quotation from it should be published without his prior written consent and information derived from it should be acknowledged. DECLARATION I declare this work is the result of my independent investigation. -
Erotic Language As Dramatic Action in Plays by Lyly and Shakespeare
ABSTRACT Title of Dissertation: EROTIC LANGUAGE AS DRAMATIC ACTION IN PLAYS BY LYLY AND SHAKESPEARE Gillian Knoll, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 Dissertation directed by: Professor Theodore B. Leinwand Department of English This study closely examines the language of desire in the dramatic works of John Lyly and William Shakespeare, and argues that contemplative and analytical speeches about desire function as modes of action in their plays. Erotic speeches do more than express desire in a purely descriptive or perlocutionary capacity distinct from the action of the play—they incite, circulate, and create eros for characters, exposing audiences to the inner workings of the desiring mind and body. For many of Lyly’s and Shakespeare’s characters, words come to constitute erotic experience. My approach to dramatic language draws from the work of cognitive linguists such as George Lakoff and Mark Johnson who argue that our basic conceptual system, according to which we think, speak, and act, is metaphorical in nature. My focus on primary metaphors, which are based on sensorimotor experience, foregrounds the interdependence of erotic language and early modern notions of embodiment. Since language, thought, and action are all subject to this embodied metaphorical system, conceptual metaphors allow Lyly and Shakespeare to dramatize the often invisible, paradoxical, and potentially unknowable experience of erotic desire. My understanding of language as dramatic action derives from a theory about the attribution of human motives that Kenneth Burke, in The Grammar of Motives (1945), called dramatism. Burke uses five key terms to address human motivation—Act, Scene, Agent, Agency, Purpose—and I in turn use each of these terms to make sense of erotic desire on the early modern stage. -
The Plays of John Lyly Bachelor’S Diploma Thesis
Masaryk University Faculty of Arts Department of English and American Studies English Language and Literature Petra Spurná The Plays of John Lyly Bachelor’s Diploma Thesis Supervisor: Mgr. Pavel Drábek, Ph.D. 2009 I declare that I have worked on this thesis independently, using only the primary and secondary sources listed in the bibliography. …………………………………………….. Author’s signature 2 Acknowledgement: I would like to thank my supervisor Mgr. Pavel Drábek, Ph.D. for his valuable guidance and advice. 3 Table of Contents 1. Introduction.................................................................................................................5 2. The Life of Johny Lyly...............................................................................................7 3. Lyly‟s Work..............................................................................................................12 3.1 Specific Conditions...........................................................................................12 3.2 Inventions..........................................................................................................14 4. The Plays...................................................................................................................18 4.1 Introduction to the Eight Plays..........................................................................18 4.2 Allegory.............................................................................................................25 4.3 Sapho and Phao.................................................................................................28 -
Home Learning: Year 3 Maths Year 3 Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5
Home Learning: Year 3 Maths We have set out each week's learning as a series of suggested daily activities. However, the time may look very different for each family. Building in time to look after each other, be physical, creative and relax is as important as completing the set activities. You need to decide what works for you and your family. You could do more of the activities on one day and fewer on another, or you may find it helpful to have a more structured approach. It may help to give clear times for doing activities and clear times for breaks. You will also notice that some of the science, history and DT activities are the same and therefore can be done as a family. Year 3 Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Factual Fluency https://www.topmark https://www.topmarks. https://www.topmarks. https://www.topmarks. https://phet.colorado.edu/ s.co.uk/maths- co.uk/maths- co.uk/maths- co.uk/maths- sims/html/fractions- games/hit-the-button games/mental-maths- games/mental-maths- games/mental-maths- intro/latest/fractions- Halves from 10-20 train Select ÷, then ÷3 train Select ÷, hen ÷5 train Select ÷, then ÷4 intro_en.html Can you make the fraction of the given shape? Four Days of Summer Term Week 5 Click onto the link each day. There is a video to watch for each day and then activities Reasoning (Wk commencing to complete. White Rose is an excellent resource and one often used by teachers in 18/5) (Monday- https://whiterosemat our schools. -
Lyly's <I>Midas</I> As an Allegory of Tyranny
University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Faculty Publications -- Department of English English, Department of April 1972 Lyly's Midas as an Allegory of Tyranny Stephen S. Hilliard University of Nebraska-Lincoln, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/englishfacpubs Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Hilliard, Stephen S., "Lyly's Midas as an Allegory of Tyranny" (1972). Faculty Publications -- Department of English. 4. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/englishfacpubs/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the English, Department of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications -- Department of English by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. L YLY’ S M IDAS AS AN A LLEGORY OF T YRANNY grand tradition of Renaissance humanism, but his study, for all Lyly’s Midas as an Allegory of its historical insight, did not demonstrate the thematic 1 Tyranny* complexity that enriches Lyly’s plays. This article is intended to show that Lyly treated in his play Midas the nature of tyranny, a theme usually associated with the public theater. His use of alle‐ gory in depicting this theme is an informative example of the Stephen S. Hilliard Elizabethan use of the allegorical mode for dramatic purposes. Midas is perhaps “a model of elegant speech and a mirror of John Lyly’s Midas is structured in terms of traditional allegorizations of manners,” to use M. C. Bradbrook’s terms, but Lyly is deprived the Ovidian myth that represent Midas as an avaricious and ignorant of his due as an artist if the analysis of his plays is restricted to tyrant. -
Medical References in the Dramas of John Lyly
MEDICAL REFERENCES IN THE DRAMAS OF JOHN LYLY By ALICE WILLCOX NEW YORK MONG the members of Lyly’s must be stopt, or puld out.”1 Most /yk dramatis personae there is often it was “puld out.” The third func yyk only one practitioner of tion of a barber, the one which added ™ medicine. This is Motto, the “surgeon” to his title, was to let blood barber-surgeon in “Midas.” Lyly rep and dress wounds. Lyly does not repre resents him primarily as a comic char sent Motto as performing these duties acter. He is, moreover, a stupid man, but Dello declares that his master is a easily outwitted by two court pages and “Barber and a Surgeon.”2 not beneath deliberately lying about his Lyly also makes a thrust at the ethics abilities in order to gain his ends. of the trade. Motto demands of Dello, The comic relief in “Midas” centers in return for all he has taught him, only in Motto’s struggle with Licio and Pe that he keep secret the plot to regain tulus, court pages, for possession of the the beard. Dello replies, “O sir, you golden beard which the barber shaved know I am a Barber, and cannot tittle from Midas’ chin. Petulus stole it. tattle, I am one of those whose tongues Motto, naturally, wants it back. He are swelde with silence.”3 But Licio hears Petulus complaining of the tooth knows better. He declares that “it is as ache to his friend Licio. When he is hard for a barber to keepe a secrete in certain Petulus can overhear him he his mouthe, as a burning coale in his discusses with his apprentice, Dello, a hand.”4 It is this very loquacity that remarkable cure he has performed on brings about Motto’s downfall. -
Title: Midas, the Golden Age Trope, and Hellenistic Kingship in Ovid's
Title: Midas, the Golden Age trope, and Hellenistic Kingship in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Abstract: This article proposes a sustained politicized reading of the myth of Midas in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. It argues that Midas stands, first, as the embodiment of failed, Hellenistic kingship, with its ostentatious display of wealth and heralding of a new Golden Age, and, second, as a warning against the infectious “love of gold”, to which Roman politicians are far from immune. While the capture of Silenus and the golden touch episode link Midas with the tropes of Hellenistic kingship, his involvement in the competition between Pan and Apollo raises questions about the tropes of Roman imperial power itself. 0 Midas, the Golden Age trope, and Hellenistic Kingship in Ovid’s Metamorphoses It might be heaven, this static Plenitude: apples gold on the bough, Goldfinch, goldfish, golden tiger cat stock - Still in one gigantic tapestry – Sylvia Plath, In Midas' Country Ovid provides the fullest and most elaborate account of the myth of Midas that has come down to us from Classical Antiquity. His version conflates what must have been three different myths involving the legendary Phrygian king: first, his encounter with or capture of Silenus, second, the gift of the golden touch, which turned into a curse, and third, his acquisition of ass’s ears –– in Ovid’s version as a punishment by Apollo for his musical preferences. Throughout the narrative (11.85-193) Midas emerges as a figure of ridicule, a man unable to learn from his mistakes1. Despite the amount of criticism that has focused on the Metamorphoses, this episode has attracted remarkably little attention. -
Native Witchcraft and the Cunning Woman on the Stage
International Journal of Literature and Arts 2014; 2(5): 130-141 Published online September 10, 2014 (http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/j/ijla) doi: 10.11648/j.ijla.20140205.11 ISSN: 2331-0553 (Print); ISSN: 2331-057X (Online) Witches which never flew: Native witchcraft and the cunning woman on the stage Shokhan Rasool Ahmed English Department, University of Sulaimani, Sulaimani-Kurdistan, Iraq Email address: [email protected] To cite this article: Shokhan Rasool Ahmed. Witches which Never Flew: Native Witchcraft and the Cunning Woman on the Stage. International Journal of Literature and Arts. Vol. 2, No. 5, 2014, pp. 130-141. doi: 10.11648/j.ijla.20140205.11 Abstract: In early modern England cunning men and women (often older people on the fringes of society) became easy targets for gossip within rural communities. I will examine some figures of the cunning woman in this period and show how they appear in different senses: the cunning woman as a healer, nurturer, fortune-teller and domestic manager. Mother Sawyer, in The Witch of Edmonton by William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford (1621), complains of the community of Edmonton that she has been convicted because she is ‘poor, deform’d, and ignorant’ (II.i.3). 1 Sawyer has been abused because she is old and ugly and does not have any means by which to make her living. She is physically portrayed as a contemporary English witch. However Sawyer is not a witch from the beginning of the play, and not presented as one until her community accuse her of witchcraft. After she realizes that there is nothing left to lose, she makes a pact with the devil and thus her identity changes from an old woman into a real witch. -
Characters and Characterization in John Lyly's Endymion: the Man In
International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences Vol-6, Issue-3; May-Jun, 2021 Journal Home Page Available: https://ijels.com/ Journal DOI: 10.22161/ijels Peer-Reviewed Journal Characters and characterization in John Lyly’s Endymion: The Man in the Moone Mufeed Al-Abdullah Associate Professor, Jerash University, Jordan Received: 28 Mar 2021; Received in revised form: 01 May 2021; Accepted: 16 May 2021; Available online: 12 Jun 2021 ©2021 The Author(s). Published by Infogain Publication. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Abstract— This paper studies the characters and the methods of characterization John Lyly uses in his euphuistic court play Endymion: The Man in the Moon (1591). The characters gather mythological, allegorical, and historical significance and are arranged in a hierarchy from the moon down to earth. The techniques the writer uses include the traditional methods of characterization through speech and action. And since the events in the play do not reach the level of a plot in the Aristotelian definition, which prevailed in the Renaissance, the writer underplays the method of character depiction through action. He, however,gives a lot of attention to portraying the characters through their utterance. This results from the fact that the characters spend most of the time talking about their attitudes, their relationships, and the few events that take place in the play. Lyly also uses the less traditional method of juxtaposition and social positioning. Juxtaposition is generated from the binary nature of Endymion and the crowd of antithetical pairs of characters that populate the drama. -
Was Shakespeare a Euphuist? Some Ruminations on Oxford, Lyly and Shakespeare Sky Gilbert
Brief Chronicles V (2014) 171 Was Shakespeare a Euphuist? Some Ruminations on Oxford, Lyly and Shakespeare Sky Gilbert or Oxfordians, the fact that John Lyly was Oxford’s secretary for fifteen years makes him a significant literary figure. Some Oxfordians have suggested Fthat Lyly’s plays are the works of a young Shakespeare written under a pseudonym. Oxford patronized two theater companies during the 1580s, Oxford’s Boys, and Oxford’s Men. Oxford’s Boys were based at the Blackfriar’s Theatre as well as Paul’s Church. Oxford transferred the boy’s company to Lyly, and Lyly went on to write many plays for them, including Endymion, Sapho and Phao, Gallathea, and Love’s Metamorphosis. John Lyly was born in 1553 or 1554. His grandfather was the noted grammarian William Lyly, famous for having written a widely utilized grammar textbook as well as for founding St. Paul’s School in London. Lyly attended Oxford but left before graduating, finding life more suitable as a poet. In 1579 he published his first novel, Euphues or the Anatomy of Wit. Apparently Lyly’s goal was to become Master of Revels, and he dedicated himself mainly to playwriting after the publication of his first novel. It is significant that Oxford and Lyly were (and are) linked as “Italianate” figures. Alan Nelson, in his biography of the Earl of Oxford, Monstrous Adversary, makes it abundantly clear that Oxford’s trip to Italy and his subsequent return to court flaunting his Italian clothes and manners branded him as not only Italianate, but superficial and effeminate: “His braggadocio is unmatched by manly deeds. -
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