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1. Goldman’s essay on RJ†from Sh. And the Energies of Drama
1. Everything is intense, impatient, threatening, explosive
1. Repeated images of quick change†street brawls, crowds gathering, swords flashing, torches running on and off
2. Upper stage used; many opportunities for leaping, scrambling, stretching
3. Oppressive heat, sexual desire, whiz-bang exhilarating kiesthesia of speed and clash
4. Keeping down and spearation of highly charged bodies….pressure toward release, suden discharge determine the rhythm of the play
2. Tragic heros pass from isolation to isolation†they’re transformed as their package ruptures†tragedy of the unsounded self becoming sounded
3. This pattern unites plot, spectacle and wordplay
1. Share business, suddeness and violence
1. Violent delights have violent ends
2. Why so many obscene puns?
2. Romeo’s name
1. Others wonder what he should be called†humors madman passion lunatic, coward boy
3. A tragedy of naming
1. 3.3.102-8†deadly name
2. name her denotes his history, past, responsibility
3. finitude
4. names have substantiality†can murder die, etc.
5. words take on attributes of names†"banished"
6. naming is associated with separation†nightingale not lark
1. pass from night of sex to day of exile
2. night is free assoication; day makes stricter demands
3. lovers relinquish right to rename things
4. Punning
1. Rampant psychic energy that rises to break the meanings of words down 164
2. Suddenness and violence part of all...
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