Comedy, Wit and Satire Flashcards
English Ambassador, 3.2
“Cardinal’s just too bitter”
Isabella, 2.1
“Preserve her flesh, like mummia for trophies”
Stage direction [Vittoria], 3.2
“[bowing]”
Vittoria, 3.2
“This character ‘scapes me”
Flamineo, 5.6
“My liver’s parboiled like Scotch holy-bread,
There’s a plumber laying out pipes in my guys, it scalds!”
Exaggerated macabre in mock death
Vittoria, 5.3
“Now the hard and undigestible words,
Come up like stones we use give hawks for physic”
Mocking the lawyer’s use of latin, it is as absurd as giving a hawk pebbles to help digestion
J. R. Mulryne
It is “a form in which comedy and tragedy, the laughable and the appalling, are so composed that neither is pre-dominant”
Rupert Brooke
“With Webster, every character and nearly every speech has something of the satirical outlook”
Vittoria, 3.1
“It does not suit a reverend cardinal to play the lawyer thus”
Irony of reverend cardinal, disrespctful, mocking tone
Monticelso, 2.2
“You are a cuckold”
“Cuckold” is an element of comedy
Vittoria & Isabella
“Personate masculine virtue” & “O that I were a man”
Ironic for audience as they are men!
