Frye, ''Shakespeare's The Tempest''

Mom! He's Touching Me Again!

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2009/03/mom_hes_touching_me_again.html

A Fall Does Not Make for a Hopeful “Brave New World”
“The vision, however, is one of a renewed power and energy of nature rather than simply a return to a lost Paradise: a sense of a ‘brave new world’ appropriate as a wedding offering to a young and attractive couple” (Frye 302).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2009/03/a_fall_does_not_make_for_a_hop.html

Is Literature an Illusion or is it a form of reality?

“Colin Still, recognizing that Shakespeare could have had no direct knowledge of classical mystery rites, ascribed the symbolic coincidences he found with The Tempest to an inner ‘necessity,’ to the fact that the imagination must always talk in some such terms when it gets to a sufficient pitch of intensity.”

-From Northrop Frye’s “Shakespeare’s The Tempest” in Donald Keesey’s Contexts for Criticism, page 303
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/EricaGearhart/2009/03/more_evidence_for_the_monomyth.html

muddy point!! help understanding temporary illusions would be awesome!!!

From monolith to monomyth.

This concept of the comedic love story is not only throughout literature but it has also slid into contemporary film.

The Monomyth Strikes Again
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JennaMiller/2009/03/the-monomyth-strikes-again.html

Literature's Core

"In Shakespeare's day, if a cultivated person had been asked what a comedy was, he would probably have said that it was a play which depicted people in the middle and lower ranks of society, observed their foibles and follies, and was careful not to diverge too far from what would be recognized as credible..." (Frye 299).

"As often in Shakespeare, the characters in The Tempest are invited to a meeting to be held after the play in which the puzzling features of their experiences will be explained to them. This seems a curious and unnecessary convention, but it is true to the situation of the drama, where the audience always knows more about what is going on than the characters do" (Frye 303).

"The Tempest is above all a fantasy of innocent revenge. The revenge is Prospero's, but the fantasy is Shakespeare's, whose conflicting needs are similar to those of his protaginist" (Paris 237).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/2009/03/revenge-is-inno.html

I read the wrong one, but still come check it out