Act 1 Flashcards
Act 1 Scene 1: The Duke is telling Escalus about his plans to delegate power to Angelo while he is away
“Lent him our terror, dress’d him with our love, / And given his deputation all the organs / Of our own power”
Act 1 Scene 1: The Duke telling Angelo about his credentials to take the Duke’s place temporarily
“Mortality and mercy in Vienna / Live in thy tongue and heart”
Act 1 Scene 1: Angelo fears that he does not have enough experience to execute the Duke’s role in Vienna
“Let there be some more test of my mettle / Before so noble and so great a figure / Be stamp’d upon it”
Act 1 Scene 2: Lucio spots Mistress Overdone as she arrives onstage
“Behold, behold, where Madam Mitigation comes!”
Act 1 Scene 2: Mistress Overdone frets about her future after Pompey tells her of Angelo’s proclamation
“Thus, what with the war, what with the sweat, what with the gallows, and what with poverty, I am custom-shrunk”
Act 1 Scene 2: Pompey’s describing Claudio’s crime to Mistress Overdone
“Groping for trouts, in a peculiar river”
Act 1 Scene 3: The Duke’s description of Angelo to Friar Thomas
“A man of stricture and firm abstinence”
Act 1 Scene 3: The Duke’s interpretation of how the citizens of Vienna came to be immoral
“We have strict statutes and most biting laws / The needful bits and curbs to headstrong jades / Which for these fourteen years we have let slip”
Act 1 Scene 3: The Duke contemplates the future of Vienna and Angelo’s potential to be tempted now that he holds a great deal of power
“Hence shall we see / If power changes purpose, what our seemers be”
Act 1 Scene 4: Lucio addressing Isabella in a convent
“Hail virgin, if you be”
