It's Greek to Me!
Defined the stages of tragedy in Poetics
Who is Aristotle
Says, "The Lady doth Protest too much."
Who is Gertrude
“A little more than kin, and less than kind” (Act 1, Scene 2)
"woman's love"
Her last album, The Life of a Showgirl, features over a dozen references to Shakespeare.
Who is Taylor Swift
Compared to the Greek woman in mourning called Niobe
Says, "Oh cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right."
Who is Hamlet
“Words, words, words” (Act 2, Scene 2)
Hamlet claims he is "too much in the sun" or too much his Uncle's son employing this form of speech.
What is a pun
The title of Taylor Swift's first track on the album The Life of a Showgirl.
What is, The Fate of Ophelia
Hamlet says his father is no more like Claudius than he [Hamlet] to this Greek Titan
Who is Hercules
Says, "Do not as some ungracious pastors, show me the steep and thorny way to heaven."
Who is Ophelia
Hamlet’s reference to Hyperion and a satyr (Act 1, Scene 2)
What is allusion
Hamlet teases her claiming "it is a fair thought to lie between a maid's legs."
Who is Ophelia?
In her song, Cancelled, Swift references this line from Macbeth.
What is "something wicked this way comes."
Freud's Oedipus complex originates from the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex by this ancient Greek playwright
Who is Sophocles
This author titled his book after this line from Hamlet; "Denmark is a prison. I could be bound in a nutshell and consider myself a king of infinite space."
Who David Foster Wallace?
“To be, or not to be”
What is antithesis
Hamlet asks if he is quite "chop fallen".
Who is Yorick.
Saved Taylor Swift from "The fate of Ophelia"
Who is Travis Kelce
Ancient Greek tragedies and comedies were performed in the spring in the festival of this god
Who is Dionysus
Says, "Bear him up and let fights of angels sing thee to thy rest."
Who is Fortinbras
Shakespeare uses the notion of sleep as a substitute for death when Hamlet says, "To die, to sleep."
What is metonymy
Hamlet says this place is "a prison."
What is Denmark.
The bridge to "The Fate of Ophelia" and the dance (performative)
What is "Keep it one hundred on the land, the sea, the sky, I pledge allegiance to your hand, your team, your vibe..." with dance moves.