Ben Jonson - Catiline His Conspiracy Flashcards
Which readers does Jonson distinguish between?
‘The reader in ordinary’ vs ‘the reader extraordinary’
What does Catiline say about power at start?
‘The power is in our hands:
Our bodies able, our minds as strong’ [to the public]
what is Catiline called?
God-like Catiline
What does the Chorus suggest will overcome Rome?
Rome…by itself be overcome
What is said of Catiline’s wife?
‘She knows not how to wear a garment…
all jewels, and gold sometimes, so that her self appears the least part of herself’
what is said of Cicero, in terms of social mobility?
‘Virtue, where there is no blood: tis vice’
What does the Chorus say they hope of their new Senator?
‘let whom we name…be more with faith, than face, and study conscience above aim’
What is the ‘art’ of ‘popular men’?
‘An art…popular men, they must create strange Monsters, and then quell them, to make thier arts seem something’
What is ambition a rebel against?
Ambition…a rebel unto the soul, and reason…treasds upon religion…vioelnce to Virtue’s self’
What is said of Fulvia in praise?
‘But dead, ehr very name will be a statue…rooted in the minds
Of all posterity; when Brass, and Marble, and the capitla itself, are dust’
What is the near vice to virtue?
Chorus: ‘ambition, that near vice to virtue’
What do the Roman public realsie?
‘it is our base petitionary breath
That blows them to this greatness’
What does Cicero suggest about the physicality of guilt?
Hath the palness of thy guilt drunk up thy blood?
What does Catiline say of Cicero’s rhetoric?
‘he has strove to emulate this morning’s thunder
WIth his prodigious rhetoic’
What do the Soldiers say of the Roman public?
‘whilst they reach after our fortuners, have let fly their own’
