Act 3 scene 1 Flashcards
John Dove production is humourous
friar wears perculiar glasses pausing for humouros timing and hits claudio on the head at a tense moment for comic relief.
John Dove sibling relationship
Claudio & Isabella hold hands before Claudio changes his mind wanting Isabella to sacrifice her virginity then taking her hand again again trying to persuade her and nealing before her- real feeling of a sibling relationship
What happens act 3 scene 1
Opens with the duke and Claudio speaking, CLaudio says he still hopes to be pardoned but is ready to die. Isabella goes to tell Claudio of what has happened he initially supports her before reality dawns on him and he begs for her to comply with Angelo’s orders then Isabella goes into a rage , they are interrupted by the friar who has overheard and creates the plan for Marriana who lost her dowry in a shipwreck to go in Isabella’s place
2019 Royal shakespear company
Before hearing of what Angelo did the siblings embrace and after thry hold hands, both plays build up a sibling relationship. Isabella realy shouts at claudio for asking her to lose her virginity she is enraged unlike the John Dove prodcution.
Claudio’s initial disgust to Angelo
“Thou shalt not do’t”
Isabella would give her life but not her virginity quote
“I’d throw it down for your deliverance as frankly as a pin” (if it was her life)
Claudio had accepted death & then his change of heart quotes
“I will encounter death as a bride and hug it in mine arms”
“Death is a fearful thing”
Claudio trying to persuade Isabella
“It is no sin , or of the deadly seven it is the least”
Isabella enraged
“O, you beast! O faithless coward!”
Isabella & the friars plan
“Your brother saved, your honour untainted , the poor marianna advantaged, and the corrupt deputy scaled”
David Thackers production
Isabella has a very physical reaction to her brothers plea for his life pinning him down
