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Sep. 24th, 2008 06:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI tried that Stagecraft book again, but this time I looked up Medea in the index and only read those bits. That worked much better. Also whoever bent the corners and did underlining was studying Medea too, which simplifies things somewhat, irritating though the habit may be. So now I've read it making some specific points about unusual or surprise entrances and exits in Medea, of which there are many, but all constructed carefully to stick together and make points.
The Nurse announces the children at the start, which wouldn't usually be so, but she's saying she's worried about them, so now we all know what to worry about. The dude from Athens turns up a bit fortuitously, but the problem that he's the required solution to has been set up pretty clearly when she's worrying about where she'll go, and his concern about getting children ties in to and possibly suggests to Medea her course of action. The chorus sing about how the children will surely die now and then their teacher comes home oblivious saying how they'll be saved from exile, which is ironically true, because they're not sent away when they're dead. And at the end when Jason turns up and heads for the main doors it's really quite a lot of a surprise how she turns up flying above everyone. Especially when you might expect her and the kids to be wheeled out on the corpse trolley with the special name. There's another story just been mentioned where the mother commits suicide after the gods drove her mad so she'd do such a bad thing, and then Jason heads for the doors and you think you're getting another one of those, but no, Medea is all in control of herself and flying like gods do. Big surprise.
Very skinny book. All done.
I think I'll remember this one as 'pay attention to the ins and outs' and send it back to library again.
The Nurse announces the children at the start, which wouldn't usually be so, but she's saying she's worried about them, so now we all know what to worry about. The dude from Athens turns up a bit fortuitously, but the problem that he's the required solution to has been set up pretty clearly when she's worrying about where she'll go, and his concern about getting children ties in to and possibly suggests to Medea her course of action. The chorus sing about how the children will surely die now and then their teacher comes home oblivious saying how they'll be saved from exile, which is ironically true, because they're not sent away when they're dead. And at the end when Jason turns up and heads for the main doors it's really quite a lot of a surprise how she turns up flying above everyone. Especially when you might expect her and the kids to be wheeled out on the corpse trolley with the special name. There's another story just been mentioned where the mother commits suicide after the gods drove her mad so she'd do such a bad thing, and then Jason heads for the doors and you think you're getting another one of those, but no, Medea is all in control of herself and flying like gods do. Big surprise.
Very skinny book. All done.
I think I'll remember this one as 'pay attention to the ins and outs' and send it back to library again.