{"id":241,"date":"2017-03-06T11:57:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T16:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=241"},"modified":"2017-03-06T11:57:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T16:57:06","slug":"re-sarahs-the-role-of-comedy-in-greenblatt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/romancing-the-sonnet\/re-sarahs-the-role-of-comedy-in-greenblatt\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Sarah&#8217;s &#8220;The Role of Comedy in Greenblatt&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One distinction I would make between comedy and the sonnets is the embodiment of performativity. As we (sorta)\u00a0talked\u00a0about in class, the sonnets are performances in that they\u00a0can be thought of as dramatic monologues. But the performativity is more diffused\u2014it exists either solely on the page, or in the aural experience of someone reading the poem out loud. An interesting thing happens there where the reader inherently and I think unintentionally takes up that performance\u2014but that seems different to me than actually taking on a role for a play. For the comedies, the performance is an embodied performance. It is deliberately written to exist beyond the page. That doesn&#8217;t mean we should discount the performativity that exists only on the page\u2014because there definitely are plays that are never performed, and perhaps never intended to be performed\u2014but in the case of Shakespeare, I would choose to privilege\u00a0the performance over the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One distinction I would make between comedy and the sonnets is the embodiment of performativity. As we (sorta)\u00a0talked\u00a0about in class, the sonnets are performances in that they\u00a0can be thought of as dramatic monologues. But the performativity is more diffused\u2014it exists either solely on the page, or in the aural experience of someone reading the poem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-romancing-the-sonnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}