A03 Quotes On Power Flashcards
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men”
Power
“Kings are justly called gods for they exercise divine power upon earth” - POWER
King James 1
“God hath the power to create or destroy, make or unmake at his pleasure”
Power
“Angelo treats his subjects as puppets”
Cyril smith
“Your desire will e for your husband, and he will rule over you”
Power
“The divine right of kings is to govern wrong”
Alexander pope
“Insanely sadistic torture” (about the duchess)
Ryan gibbons
Alexander pope
The divine right of kings is to govern wrong
Ryan gibbons
Insanely sadistic torture
Cyril smith
Angelo treats his subjects as puppets.
King James 1
Kings are justly called gods as the exercise divine power upon earth.
David Lloyd
“Shakespeare forces us to adjust to a level of apprehension of motives for human actions which lie far deeper then we are usually willing to go”
Eric partridge
Calls measure for measure “Shakespeare’s most sexual, most bawdy play”
states that there is “fairly general agreement that Shakespeare intended Duke Vincentio to suggest the reigning monarch himself”
Catherine f. Siegel
Herbert howarth
Concurs that the “court audience would have been alive to see potential resemblances between the governmental actions and character of the fictional duke vincentio and those of the real king James 1st
