values and context

values and context

1. All texts reflect the values and context of their time of production, allowing for evaluation of the manner in which artistry shifts over time.

   • S presents ideas in form of Aristotelian tragedy play, utilising 5-Act Senecan external structure
     • Textual integrity further reflects context - tandem narrative structure + characterisation of R as Machiavellian vice
       • simile "Thus, like the formal Vice" - would've been relevant for Elizabethan audience
         • S opts to use language to shape meaning (evident in MOP - play)
           • highlighting contextual constraints - unable to produce text in manner P has
             • P reshapes RIII into docudrama - relevance for modern audience
               • P intends to follow progression of S's text - visual text "Act 1" "Act 2" separates work into 5 Acts - just as S's was
                 • P transitions from realism to staged drama at key times - highlight moments he can provide deeper/differing meaning for
                   • E.g. in RIII - R's death - stage direction "Richard dies" - denote importance
                     • P chose to visually rep scene in detail, tint red, slow motion for emphasis
                       • display nature in which demands of audience change over time - P's decision to violently present death
                         • Presenting to desensitised audience completely differing S's
   • duplicious nature of works allows for re-discovering past values - manip and greed
     • Manip literally explored through Pacino's re-shaping of Shakespeare's words into visual format
       • R's constant aside and pun "[aside] ...I moralise two meanings in one word" - reflected in manner P plays a character + 'deceives' audiences.
         • material world of 90's encapsulated in stock footage where P visits Globe Theatre - dacayed over time + surrounded by bustling city
           • greed of humanity destroyed classical literature just as R's greed and lust for power become his undoing.
             • Peripeteia evident in R's r-questioning "what am I?" + self-references "villian"
               • Therefore, context becomes evident through a composer’s choice of textual form, and values are ever-present, allowing responders to re-discover them as they are explored across differing contexts.