Act 3 Scene 2 Flashcards
What happens in act 3 scene 2 part 1
The Duke is outside of the prison where elbow and pompey are as Pompey is being imprisoned for being a bawd and a pick pocket, he asks Lucio to pay his bail but he refuses. Lucio then jokes to the duke as the friar about Angelo strictly upholding the law and could afford to be more lenient on the matter of lechery. Lucio goes onto make jokes about the duke uknowingly to his face which he threatens to report to the Duke after he arrives back .
What happens in act 3 scene 2 part 2
Escalous enters with M. overdone & provost to send her to prison for running a brothel. M.overdone argues that the evidence comes from Lucio who is guilty of fornication having a child of about a year old with a woman named Kate Keepdown, Ecalous calls for Lucios arrest. Escalous asks the Duke about the world to which he says everywhere is the same goodness has grown sick. Ending the scene the Duke delievers a soliloquoy on his commitement to trick Angelo.
1979 BBC production
Senses of humour as the friar pulls his hood to his face when speaking to the Ecalous.
David Thackers production
They wear clothes relevant to the audience making the characters more easily interpretable making the production more engaging and highlighting issues. The Lucio in this play feels more mocking with his tone where other Lucio’s feel
more gossipy and lacking self- awareness.
lucio on pompey being imprisoned
“imprison him. If imprisonment be the due of a bawd, why, ‘tis his right.”
Lucio Duke joke
Duke that is absent have done this? Ere he would have hanged a man for the getting a hundred bastards, he would have paid for the nursing a thousand.
Lucio on Angelo’s view and ruling style
“Sparrows must not build in his house-eaves, because they are lecherous.”
“more lenity to lechery”— Duke responds that “severity must cure it”
M.overdone reporting Lucio
“Lucio’s information against me, Mistress Kate Keep-down was with child”
Dukes quote on Angelo in his soliloquy
“Shame to him whose cruel striking Kills for faults of his own liking!”
