June 1st

Rom-com tropes:

• Leads not together (L & Hm).
• Songs.
• Physical humor (Bottom),
• Changes of heart.
• Exaggerated love.
• Amorous canoodling.
• Temporary separations.
• Wedding ending.
• Parallel situations.
• Class status issues (Ti & B).
• Secrets.
• Funny BFF (Puck).
• A fight (Hm & Hl).
• Mistaken identity (bottom).

Significance of motifs:

• Snakes: Dangers to love/hate/deception. 
• Dreams: Emphasizes surrealism/ questions of reality/ confusion.
• Moon: Sets atmosphere, passage of time, and emphasizes purity.

Criticism of theater:

• Poor staging.
• Melodrama.
• Poor concentration.
• Malapropisms.
• Failing to maintain illusion of reality.
• Exaggerated euphony (alliteration).

COURSE QUESTION:

#1,2,3.