Past The Shallows
What is a midden?
A concentration of shell, bone, botanical remains, ash and charcoal that is evidence of a past Aboriginal gathering area
What is Richard’s title at the start of the play?
Duke of York
Who plays Lady Anne in 'Looking For Richard'?
Winona Ryder
What is T.S. Eliot's nationality?
He was born American but he became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39 and renounced his American citizenship.
What was shot in Gwen Harwood's paired poems 'Father and Child'?
A barn owl
Who is Harry's real father?
We don't know!
What famous line opens the play?
“Now is the winter of our discontent”
What does Pacino expect to have when he visits the birthplace of Shakespeare?
Define 'textual integrity'.
The syllabus defines textual integrity as:
The unity of a text; its coherent use of form and language to produce an integrated whole in terms of meaning and value. (p 100)
Whose life was Noel Pearson's eulogy commemorating?
Gough Whitlam
What is the name of the stray dog that George Fuller saves?
Jake
Finish this quote:
"Was ever woman in this humour wooed? / Was ever woman...
...in this humour won?”
What is the opening line of 'Looking For Richard'?
(Hint: it's the first few words of the 'Tempest' extract)
Our revels now have ended
Eliot embarked on a postgraduate year in Europe in 1910 and spent time between these two European cities.
Paris and Munich
What literary feature typically defines the end of a discursive piece?
Low modality language
What does Miles and Jeff find inside the dead mako shark?
A baby shark
What battle ends the play and Richard’s reign?
Battle of Bosworth Field
Complete this line:
‘They canvas like politicians. Complete with ___ and _____.’
Lies and innuendo
What was the name of Eliot's wife whom he married in 1915?
(The marriage was not successful: the two separated in 1933 and Eliot eventually committed _____ (still legally his wife) to a mental hospital in 1938.)
Vivienne Haigh-Wood
Name on major contribution achieved during the Whitlam government.
"and what did the Romans ever do for us anyway?"
Apart from Medibank and the Trade Practices Act, cutting tariff protections and no-fault divorce in the Family Law Act, the Australia Council, the Federal Court, the Order of Australia, federal legal aid, the Racial Discrimination Act, needs-based schools funding, the recognition of China, the abolition of conscription, the law reform commission, student financial assistance, the Heritage Commission, non-discriminatory immigration rules, community health clinics, Aboriginal land rights, paid maternity leave for public servants, lowering the minimum voting age to 18 years and fair electoral boundaries and Senate representation for the territories.
What is Admiral d'Entrecasteaux's first name?
Bruni
What is the name of the woman Richard wants to marry after Lady Anne?
Elizabeth of York
What is the key visual difference in the way that Pacino, as Richard, delivers his final battle speech to his troops that contrasts Richmond in his speech?
Pacino is dressed not in costume but in regular contemporary dress
Eliot was strongly influence by this French Symbolist.
Jules Laforgue
Geraldine Brooks attended a lecture on 'Singularities in Algebraic Plane Curves'; an experience which forms the anecdote for her speech 'A Home in Fiction'.
Where was this lecture held?
Cambridge, Massachusetts.