John Locke (NIVEL AVANZADO)

NIVEL AVANZADO:   John Locke

Hablamos algo de la filosofía de Locke y su psicología. Tenéis una lectura de su Essay Concerning Human Understanding, sobre la asociación de las ideas. Aquí hay un pequeño comentario adicional sobre él: "Training the Train of Ideas".
 


A video lesson on John Locke's political philosophy:  https://youtu.be/nbnmtWtCABI



Another one:
 "2. Locke: Equality, Freedom, Property, and the Right to Dissent." (Foundations of Modern Social Thought SOCY 151). YouTube (Yale Courses) 4 March 2011.*   http://youtu.be/T7dTgWL3ajM

and another one on the empiricists, Locke and Berkeley (Richard Brown): http://youtu.be/R9GuSA9HHgA

NIVEL AVANZADO: Restoration Women Writers

NIVEL AVANZADO: Escritoras de la Restauración

On Egerton's notion of an original freedom of women, "Moses, who first our freedom did rebuke..." —ver esta nota de Reflexiones de un primate.

 


Four women writers:

Margaret Fell Fox (1614-1702; wife of George Fox, founder of the Quakers)
______. Women's Speaking Justified, Proved and Allowed by the Scriptures. 1666.


Lucy Hutchison (b. 1620). Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson [1615-1674]. Pub. 1806.

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673)
_____. Poems and Fancies. 1653.
_____. Orations of Divers Sorts. 1662.
_____. Philosophical Letters: or, Modest Reflections upon some Opinions in Natural Philosophy. 1664.
_____. Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. With The Description of a New World, called the Blazing World. Scientific fantasy. 1666.
_____. The Life of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle. 1667.
_____. CCXI Sociable Letters. 1664.


Mary Astell (1666-1731)
_____. (Anon.) A Serious Proposal to the Ladies. 1694.
_____. (Anon.). Some Reflections upon Marriage. 1700.

"Mary Astell." Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Astell


A BBC audio on Mary Astell (In Our Time).

Other Restoration dramatists (NIVEL AVANZADO)

NIVEL AVANZADO:

Other Restoration dramatists:


Thomas Otway (1652-1685).

_____. Alcibiades. Heroic play. 1675.
_____. Don Carlos. Heroic play. 1676.
_____. Cheats of Scapin. Comedy. 1677? Based on Molière.
_____. Titus and Berenice. Heroic play. 1676. (Based on Racine's Bérénice ).
_____. Friendship in Fashion. Comedy. 1678.
_____. The History and Fall of Caius Marius. Drama. 1680.
_____. The Orphan. Tragedy 1680.
_____. The Poet's Complaint of His Muse. 1680.
_____. The Souldier's Fortune. 1681.
_____. Venice Preserv'd, or a Plot Discover'd. Tragedy. 1682.
_____. The Atheist. Drama. 1684.



Nathaniel Lee (c. 1649-1692)

_____.  The Tragedy of Nero. Drama.1674.
_____. Sophonisba; or, Hannibal's Overthrow. Tragedy. 1675.
_____. Gloriana. Tragedy. 1676.
_____. The Rival Queens, or the Death of Alexander the Great. Drama. 1677.
_____. Mithridates, King of Pontus. Drama. 1678.
_____. Caesar Borgia. Drama. 1680.
_____. Theodosius, or the Force of Love. Drama. 1680.
_____. Lucius Junius Brutus. Drama. 1680.
_____. Constantine the Great. Drama. 1684.
_____. The Princess of Cleve. Drama. 1689.
_____. The Massacre of Paris. Drama. 1689. (On the massacre of St Bartholomew, 1572).

In collaboration with Dryden:
_____. Oedipus. 1679.
_____. The Duke of Guise. Drama. 1682.





The Theatre of the Restoration — notes from A History of English Literature, by Legouis and Cazamian.


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Dido and Aeneas - A contemporary staging

Dryden y la música

En la semiópera de Dryden "King Arthur," con música de Purcell, se encuentra una curiosa canción, "Cold Song":



 

Aquí la canta Klaus Nomi:

Otra canción de King Arthur ("Harvest home", "Old England" o "Your Hay it is Mow'd"):


 

 

A la "Oda a Santa Cecilia" de Dryden; le puso música Draghi pero luego escribió otra partitura Handel. 



En YouTube se encuentra la música:



 
Las colaboraciones y versiones musicales de Dryden son abundantes. Aquí hay, de una versión que hizo de Edipo Rey, también con números musicales de Purcell, una canción sobre el encantamiento de la música, "Music for a While":

Rochester and Restoration drama (NIVEL AVANZADO)

IN OUR TIME: The Restoration (audio).

Un par de enlaces sobre el teatro del XVII:

- A propósito del teatro de la Restauración, existe la película The Libertine, con Johnny Depp, sobre el conde de Rochester. Por Internet la podéis localizar. Está basada en una obra de teatro actual, de Stephen Jeffers.





- Otra buena película sobre el teatro inglés allá a principios de los años 1660 es Stage Beauty (titulada en español Belleza  Prohibida).


- Si os gusta la música clásica, tenéis que conocer la ópera de Henry Purcell Dido and Aeneas. Si no os gusta la ópera, quizá sea porque no habéis escuchado ésta, que es posiblemente la mejor ópera de la música inglesa. Aquí puede verse una versión filmada.  

O también en escena: 

 



 

En todo caso, es muy aconsejable que conozcáis esta obra, y es una muestra excelente de la música y del teatro de la época que estudiamos, en particular del género heroic play. En YouTube hay varias versiones, por ejemplo en este enlace.  Y en este otro tenéis el libreto (de Nahum Tate, también colega y colaborador de Dryden).

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"Sir John Davenant and Adapting Shakespeare, Restoration-style." 

         http://theshakespeareblog.com/2013/05/sir-john-davenant-and-adapting-shakespeare-restoration-style/

         2019

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

From The Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. Margaret Drabble:

Rochester, John Wilmot, second earl of (1647-80), lyric poet, satirist, and a leading member of the group of 'court wits' surrounding Charles II. He was born at Ditchley in Oxfordshire, his father was a Cavalier hero and his mother a deeply religious woman related to many prominent Puritans. In his early teens he was sent to Wadham College, Oxford, the home of the *Royal Society, and then went on a European tour, returning to the court late in 1664. At the age of 18 he romantically abducted the sought-after heiress Elizabeth Malet in a coach-and-six. Despite the resistance of her family, and after a delay of 18 months (during which Rochester fought with conspicuous gallantry in the war against the Dutch), she married him. Subsequently his time was divided between periods of domesticity with Elizabeth at his mother's home in the country (the couple had four children), and fashionable life in London with, among several mistresses, the brilliant actress Elizabeth *Barry, and his riotous male friends, who included the earl of Dorset (C. *Sackville) and the duke of *Buckingham. Wherever he was staying he tried to keep up the other side of his life through letters, many of which survive.

Although Dr. *Johnson dismissed Rochester's lyrics, their wit and emotional complexity give him some claim to be considered one of the last important *Metaphysical poets of the 17th cent., and he was one of the first of the *Augustans, with his social and literary verse satires. He wrote scurrilous lampoons—some of them impromptu—dramatic prologues and epilogues, 'imitations' and translations of classical authors, and several other brilliant poems which are hard to categorize, such as his tough self-dramatization 'The Maimed Debauchee' and the grimly funny 'Upon Nothing'. He wrote more frankly about sex than anyone in English before the 20th cent., and is one of the most witty poets in the language. Although his output was small (he died young), it was very varied. *Marvell admired him, *Dryden, *Swift, and *Pope were all influenced by him (he was Dryden's patron for a time), and he has made an impression on many subsequent poets—*Goethe and *Tennyson, for example, and in modern Britain, *Empson and P. *Porter.
Rochester is famous for having, in Johnson's words, 'blazed out his youth and health in lavish voluptuousness'. He became very ill in his early thirties and engaged in discussions and correspondence with a number of theologians, particularly the deist Charles Blount and the rising Anglican churchman G. *Burnet, an outspoken royal chaplain who superintended and subsequently wrote up the poet's deathbed conversion. It was the final contradiction in a personality whose many oppositions—often elegantly or comically half-concealed—produced an important body of poems. See Complete Poems, ed. D. M. Vieth (1968); Poems, ed. K. Walker (1984); Letters, ed. J. Treglown (1980). There is a life by V. de Sola Pinto (1953, 2nd ed. 1964); see also Lord Rochester's Monkey (1974) by G. *Greene.

The Libertine

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