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sologdin
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Troilus & Cressida
Menippean satire in the theatre, maybe. Pandarus is a director, stage-managing the central affair--but he is also erotically involved as a spectator of that affair. Bequeathing his 'diseases' to the audience is to critique the mechanism by which an audience spies on the intimacy of others on stage.
— Feb 19, 2026 08:26AM
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Menippean satire in the theatre, maybe. Pandarus is a director, stage-managing the central affair--but he is also erotically involved as a spectator of that affair. Bequeathing his 'diseases' to the audience is to critique the mechanism by which an audience spies on the intimacy of others on stage.
sologdin
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Twelfth Night
I love this one, but on rereading again here, it seems like it's just pieces of other plays snipped out and switched around. The twinfoolery linked to madness is pure COE, and the cruel exclusion of Malvolio has a piece of MOV, even if it lacks a plain axis of oppression, as opposed to how Shylock is handled. Cross-dressing is MOV and AYL, whereas mass marriage is those plus MAN and MND.
— Feb 17, 2026 06:51PM
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I love this one, but on rereading again here, it seems like it's just pieces of other plays snipped out and switched around. The twinfoolery linked to madness is pure COE, and the cruel exclusion of Malvolio has a piece of MOV, even if it lacks a plain axis of oppression, as opposed to how Shylock is handled. Cross-dressing is MOV and AYL, whereas mass marriage is those plus MAN and MND.
Michael
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King Henry IV Part 2 - 3/5, this one feels like it’s really just hyping up King Henry V
— Feb 17, 2026 02:48PM
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Hamlet
A consideration of the opacity of another's interior. Despite the protagonist's certainty and incidental correctness, the epistemological problem is not resolved by the play-within-the-play. That the ghost's testimony itself is rooted in the normal problem of a history play's moral universe being determined by the arbitrary point of theatrical intervention does nothing to enhance interpretive clarity.
— Feb 16, 2026 05:58AM
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A consideration of the opacity of another's interior. Despite the protagonist's certainty and incidental correctness, the epistemological problem is not resolved by the play-within-the-play. That the ghost's testimony itself is rooted in the normal problem of a history play's moral universe being determined by the arbitrary point of theatrical intervention does nothing to enhance interpretive clarity.
