Terms and meanings

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Terms and meanings

• Cosi Louis Nowra

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Cosi fan tutte

• Cannot be directly translated but has a number of
  accepted interpretations
• Women behave that way
• School for lovers
• Women are like that

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Bourgeois romanticism

• Romaniticism - of, pertaining to, or of the
  nature of romance characteristic or suggestive
  of the world of romance a romantic adventure.
• fanciful impractical unrealistic romantic
  ideas.
• imbued with or dominated by idealism, a desire
  for adventure, chivalry, etc.
• characterized by a preoccupation with love or by
  the idealizing of love or one's beloved.
• displaying or expressing love or strong
  affection.
• ardent passionate fervent.

• a delusion of middle class people, idle wishful
  thinking, or an empty meaningless convention of
  the middle class.
• Romanticism that belongs to a person whose
  political, economic, and social opinions are
  believed to be determined mainly by concern for
  property values and conventional respectability.

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Lucy suggests

• Anything to do with love such as a play about
  love is common, trendy, unrealistic, fanciful etc
  as opposed to the real, significant and important
  issues of her life such as protesting about the
  Vietnam War.

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Metatheatre

• theatre that comments on itself. Or theatre that
  is additional to theatre (Play within the play)

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Farce

• in a play it is broad humour based on
  exaggerations such as clowning, coincidences, and
  improbabilities.
• There is farce in the basic plot mentally ill
  patients performing an opera they cannot sing, or
  understand the language of with an inexperienced
  director

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Ideology

• the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that
  guides an individual, social movement,
  institution, class, or large group.

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Intertextuality

• the content of a text, such as plot, language, or
  other reference, has its origin or stimulus in
  another text ie the intertextuality of Cosi and
  Cosi fan Tutte

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Joie de vive

• the joy of life

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Vicissitudes

• changes or variations or alternating phases that
  occur in the natural order of things.
• Vicissitudes of life - successive, alternating,
  or changing phases or conditions, as of life or
  fortune ups and downs They remained friends
  through the vicissitudes of 40 years.

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Projection

• psychological tendency to attribute to another
  person the ideas, feelings, or sentiments that
  are actually in oneself.
• Which character does this?

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Poignant -

• keenly distressing to the feelings poignant
  regret. The poignancy of Julies death highlights
  for audiences that recovery from mental illness
  and addiction is not easy.
• keen or strong in mental appeal a subject of
  poignant interest. - The play holds poignant
  interest for audiences.
• affecting or moving the emotions a poignant
  scene. The plays ending is poignant

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Irony

• a technique of indicating, as through character
  or plot development, an intention or attitude
  opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly
  stated.
• Irony exists in the parallels between lewis love
  life off stage and his love life on stage. On
  stage the infidelity is treated light heartedly
  in character of Fiordiligi and Ferrando, it is
  a trick, and the emotional turmoil is portrayed
  as comedy. In the blurred lines of Cosi, Julie
  returns to her true lover just as in Cosi fan
  tutte. Off stage Lewis is devastated by Lucys
  infidelity. He is moving out of the house, the
  relationship is over.

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A beat

• This is a feature of expressionism (a style of
  playwriting and stage presentation stressing the
  emotional content of a play, the subjective
  reactions of the characters, symbolic or abstract
  representations of reality, and non naturalistic
  techniques of scenic design.)
• It emphasises the emotional reactions - it
  intends to underline a key emotional moment a
  moment of perception, or awarenss