Angelo critics Flashcards
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Thomas Bowdler on Angelo (19th cent)
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Angelo is a ‘monster of inequity’
2
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Stephen Boxer on Angelo
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“The most corrupted character, yet Shakespeare allows him to share his thoughts with the audience, leading to the audience building a sense of sympathy for him even in his most “blackened, disgraceful moments”
3
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Kate McLuskie (modern) on Angelo
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“Powerful men often expect sexual favours from those who are socially inferior”
4
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Charlotte Lennox (18th cent)
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“Cruel, vicious and hypocritical”
5
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Emma Smith
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“Upright and cold”
6
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (18th cent) on powerful people
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“ignorant and unthinking”
