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The Enchanted Isle - Coggle Diagram
The Enchanted Isle
The Restoration
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For the first time ever, women were on the big stage.
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Moving away from one-sex model; the start of modern science, but people still believed in humours.
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Collier
"Smut is still more insufferable with respect to religion..." (538). The religions of the Ancient Greeks and Romans were hedonistic and it was reflected in their poetry as well as theater that was inspired by those cultures. He urges the supremacy of Christianity due to its "pure" culture.
He hates that women attend plays: "Do women all the regards to decency and conscious behind them when they come to the playhouse?" (537)
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Act 2
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Hippolito the boy; many layers of irony; Prospero does not explain women to Hip, just like he did not explain men to his daughter. "Something between young men and angels;" a little bit gay.
"The scene changes, and discovers Hip in a cave walking, his face from the audience"
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Restoration Theater
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Repression under Cromwell, so now people are letting out their desires through theater.
Act 1
Prospero did not introduce men to Dorinda and Miranda so they're jumpscared. They question their genders and wonder where they came from. What is gender and what is sex? How are babies made?
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Prologue
An actress is playing a boy, but if a male audience member wants to make her woman again, he can sleep with her; women in pants; not so straight; breeches roles allows actresses to show off shape more
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