Act 3 Scene 3

Question 1

What is cardinals new role

Answer 1

Soldier

Question 2

What is the count malateste like as a character

Answer 2

‘A voluntary lord’

‘He’ll fight by the book’ —> strictly according to the rules

‘He would run away from battle’

Question 3

How are similes and metaphors used to describe the characters of Bosola, Ferdinand and the Cardinals

Answer 3

‘They are like foxes: when their heads are divided they carry fire in their tails, and all the country about them goes to wrack for it’

Question 4

How do Ferdinand and the Cardinal react to the news that the Duchess is married to Antonio

Answer 4

‘Doth she make religion her riding-hood’

‘Whether her beggarly brats were ever christened’

‘Show like lepracy’

Question 5

Note unexpected reference to duchess already having son

If Webster intended him in final version of play how would he be introduced

Would his existence change Ferdinand and cardinals view and how

Answer 5

Think 💭

Question 6

Pescara and Delio on Ferdinand

Answer 6

P- the lord Ferdinand laughs

D like a deadly canon That lightens ere it smokes