Bracciano Flashcards
Bracciano and Vittoria at the consummation
Double entendre of ‘jewel’ - Brac literally gives Vitt a jewel but jewel also means reproductive organs
Insults Camillo’s sexuality and hints at his impotence and weak family name and bloodline
‘I will but change my jewel for your jewel’
‘‘tis the ornament of a weak fortune’
‘you shall wear my jewel lower’
Bracciano when Cornelia interrupts
Ironic - accuses Cornelia of being uncharitable when the corresponding virtue is greed, of which Bracciano has a lot of - for Vittoria
‘uncharitable woman!’
Bracciano when Cornelia interrupts
Ironic - trying to harness power of nature against Cornelia but his actions are not natural - going against sanctity of marriage and Christianity
Foreshadows the storm turning back on him and destroying him - ‘revenge, at first though sweet, bitter ere long back on itself recoils’ (Satan)
‘thy rash tongue hath rais’d a fearful and prodigious storm: be thou the cause of all ensuing harm’
Bracciano arguing wth Monticelso and Francisco re: Vittoria
Presents power struggle between church (F+M) and state (B) - Church is silent - no prayers which shows how Rome has turned its back on religion and it’s there as a cover for sinfulness of society
Suggests that M is preaching but B doesn’t hold religious ideals so it will have no effect
‘as silent as i’th’ church: you may proceed’
Bracciano speaking w Isabella in private after Francisco and Monticelso leave
Echoes marriage ceremony LINK to PL when A+E echo this too - both instances of sin - Eve to save herself and B to get V
‘judge’ - suggests that marriage ceremony is loveless and highlights the political nature of it rather than being a sacred ceremony of love and devotion
‘this divorce shall be as truly kept as if the judge had doomed it’
Bracciano arguing with Monticelso and Francisco re: Vittoria
B sees ideas of what is ‘moral’ imposed on him by the church but the morality is ‘poison’ from a snake, presumably - mirrors M’s adder ref - church as the root of corruption and immorality
‘spit thy poison’
The Dumb Show
‘An Englishman Italianate is the devil incarnate’ - presents the views of Puritans in Jacobean England who called for close to theatre as it was sinful - also presents renaissance art as sinful bc extravagant as Catholic Church
Refs to art throughout highlight difference between appearance and reality and sinfulness
Black art
'’tis dead midnight, the time prefixed to show me by your art’
‘nigromancer’
Bracciano at Vittoria’s arraignment
Mirrors V+B’s consummation on top of ‘fair cushions’ and a carpet - sinfulness goes hand in hand with extravagance - Catholic Church
Irony - B on similar gown as consummation - his complicity in the crime of sexual infidelity is clearly presented whereas no evidence against V
Injustice presented - women polarised
‘lays a rich gown under him’
Bracciano after he reads the letter Flamineo intercepted from Francisco to Vittoria
B immediately assumes V is a whore - as if it is in woman’s nature to be one - and wants to tear hair out bf STD makes him lose his hair and go mad - foreshadows B going mad from poison of men - irony
Mirrors Francisco procuring letter during V’s arraignment showcasing B’s lust - it’s assumed it’s V’s fault for causing it
‘O I could be mad, prevent the curst disease she’ll bring to me, and tear my hair off’
Bracciano confronting Vittoria about Francisco’s letter
17th C witchcraft belief that evil spirits could be trapped within crystals - beauty on outside but not within - B is implying V is the white devil
‘devil in crystal’ symbolises easy credulity - ‘manipulation’ of B by V mirrors PL - Satan’s manipulation of Eve - ‘into fraud led Eve, our credulous mother’
‘how long have I beheld the devil in crystal!’
Bracciano confronting Vittoria about Francisco’s letter
Synaesthesia - sound of music mixed with smell and sight of flowers - presents extravagance of Catholic Church as sinful - it will lead to ‘eternal ruin’ - hell
LINK to PL - ‘humid flowr’s’ - foreshadowing ruin - just like B’s ruin is foreshadowed by HIS lust, not V’s
‘thou hast led me, like an heathen sacrifice, with music and with fatal yokes of flowers, into eternal ruin’
Bracciano confronting Vittoria about Francisco’s letter
Presents polarised nature of women - carnal or benevolent
‘woman to man is either a god or a wolf’
Bracciano after being poisoned and raving like a madman
Sense that B is finally realising the corruption and sinfulness of society and seeing ppl for who they really are - not their appearance - sense of hopelessness that only the mad have such an insight
Hopelessness - that Flam is dancing on a tightrope - presents how easy death comes about || Flam as justice - presents corruption of justice system that money (bribery) upholds it - greed
Flamineo ‘is dancing on the ropes there: and he carries a money-bag in each hand, to keep him even, for fear of breaking’s neck’
Bracciano whilst being given the ‘last rites’ by Lodovico and Gasparo
‘an Englishman Italianate is the devil incarnate’ - presents the Renaissance as extravagant and sinful as the art hides a more malicious foundation of society
‘famous politician; whose art was poison’
Bracciano when Lodovico and Gasparo perform the ‘last rites’
Method of murder is often used to kill women - presents B’s position as analogous to that of a woman’s bc of reliance of Flam and how meritocracy seeks to subordinate landed aristocracy - not enough to be poisoned - emasculated too
‘Bracciano is strangled’
