Lecture Sides

Combined lecture slides are available here. Do be careful to remember that lecture slides are the wrong way to prepare for the Final Exam...

Shaw's Fabianism in Comparison

FABIAN (Socialist)—benevolent power of the State.

WHIGISM—individual is the primary unit, and individual expression & protection is the highest social good (Capitalism & Darwinism.)

TORYISM—small social units & tradition are the social good, non-internationalism (local is best.)

Lecturer's Office Change

My office move has finally been completed: I am now in FASS 5192.

NLP and Derren Brown

Here are links to the 'neuro-linguistic programming' clips that we viewed from the English mentalist Derren Brown who is doing something for a living that Shakespeare does, in part, for his drama. (Thanks to classfellow CS for the suggestion.)

• Birthday Present
• Paying with paper

Tragedy and Comedy

More useful questions from students came after class today. One required clarification of the Aristotle's treatment of two types of drama: Tragedy and Comedy.

Remember that Tragedy is imitation of actions of men or women that are better than ourselves, and Comedy is imitation of actions of men or women that are worse than ourselves.

Tragedy (in Aristotle's Dramatic sense) is not a synonym for "sadness" nor is Comedy (in Aristotle's Dramatic sense) a synonym for humour. Tragedy can contain humour and Comedy can express sadness.