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Quotes The Way of the World - Coggle Diagram
Quotes The Way of the World
Metatheatrical/ Metapoetic
Millamant to Witwoud : "Dear Mr Witwoud, truce with your similitudes, for I am as sick of em-"
Lady Wishfort : "big bellied actress"
WIT ''what, are you all got together, like players at the end of the last act?''
comedy of manners
'WAITWELL disguised as for Sir ROWLAND''
WISH ''how shall I receive him?''
WIT ''thou art a retailer of phrases''
about Petulant ; quotes o/ a lot, plagiarism // MIL
MIL ''I'll have a song to keep up my spirits''
Mr FAIN "you are thinking of something else now" -> intellectual type of play
MIR "I'll play on to entertain you"
MAR "Or what think you of the playhouse"
Servants<Masters
Lady Wishfort to Peg : " Why dost thou not stir, puppet, thou wooden thing upon wires?"
Negative vision of the world
marriage
Women's vision of Men
Mrs Marwood : " You hate mankind?" / Mrs Fainall : "Heartily Inveterately." / Your husband? / Most transcendently.
Mrs Marwood "Dost thou hate those vipers, men?"
Fainall : " All husbands must or pain or shame endure; the wise too jealous are, fools to secure."
Millamant's vision + cdt° to MIR : "let us be very strange and well bred"
MAR ''marriage is honourable''
FAIN '''to be a cuckold by anticipation, a cuckold in embryo!''
Pretense + hypocrisy
MAR ''deceit and frivolous pretence!''
MAR ''poor dissembling!''
FAIN to MAR ''hide your face, your tears. you have a mask: wear it a moment''
Mrs MAR "masking habit" + "masquerade" + "disguise"
Vanity
Millamant :"Oh the vanity of these men!"
Lady Wishfort "Paint, paint, paint"
MIR to MIL "your true vanity is the power of pleasing"
imaginary escape, pastoral
Lady Wishfort to Mrs Marwood
"let us leave the world, and retire by ourselves and be sheperdesses"
''well, friend, you are enough to reconcile me to the bad world, or else I would retire to desserts and solitudes, and feed harmless sheep by groves and purling streams''
Voyeurism
criticism of the law
Mrs Marwood to Lady Wishfort : "What, and have your name prostituted in a public court?"
WIT uses ''noli presequi''
FAIN "confess"
Props + Setting
III
cup -> ref to
the fairy queen
SPENCER
fairytale + supernatural
red -> paint + drinking
I. Cards
exposition scene
MIR "I happen to be grave today and you are gay, that's all"
when play really starts
society
MAR ''what think you of the playhouse?''
MIR ''beau monde''
MIR ''a herd of fools''
Court recreated
''cabal-nights''
''oh, raillery, raillery!''
FOI ''there are some cracks discernible in the white vernish''
social satire
MRS FAIN ''female frailty!''
WISH "too long alone with Sir ROWLAND" -> obsessed with decorum
MIL "I love to give pain"
ref to o/ authors
prologue ''poets are bubbles''
also vanity ; bubble = no substance + fragile like success
MIL ''natural, easy SUCKLING''
comment on aesthetics in 1700
takes a lot of art to sound natural
WIT ''hum, a hit, a hit, a palpable hit!'' -> HAMLET = tragic
MIR "here she comes full sail" -> THE TEMPEST
LE ROMAN DE RENARD
folktale
all characters = animals
MIR = fox
CHAUCER
HENRY IV, PART 1
WISH "spanish paper" -> DON QUIXOTE
Ben Jonson
Horace, Terence, Plautus
refined type
Traditions
audience supposed to know
WISH = Short View of the Stage
Ref to book written agst plays
attacked congreve
Revenge
funny
MIR "you are a fortunate man, Mr FAINALL"
WIT "I do blaze today, I am too bright"