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Question 1

John Webster

Answer 1

Life and death unknown, not much known about his life

Question 2

Real duchess

Answer 2

Giovanni d’ Aragona and Antonio beccadelli

• murdered by brothers, one was a cardinal in 1510
• brothers never killed

Question 3

Painter

Answer 3

Plot linked to ‘the palace of pleasure’ which links to novelle
Bandello knew Antonio Beccadelli who was murdered by bozzolo- Webster adapts him to be conflicted character

Question 4

Stoic

Answer 4

Endurance of pain without complaint

Question 5

Hippocrates

Answer 5

4 humours- explain human behaviour

• excess of blood or life is duchess
• excess of phlegm or lack of emotion is cardinal
• excess black bile or cynicism is bosola
• excess yellow bile or anger is Ferdinand

Question 6

Malcontent

Answer 6

Bosola- Jacobean revenge tragedy, consumed with disgust at corruption of court, vents anger by railing against it

Question 7

Madness in royal blood

Answer 7

Philip of Spain’s heir strangled in prison

Question 8

Womb

Answer 8

Causes hysteria l, Hippocrates I

Question 9

Public access to bedlam’s

Answer 9

Ended 1770

Question 10

Marriage fro alliances

Answer 10

Catherine duchess of Suffolk and Richard Bertie a member of her household

Question 11

Elizabeth I

Answer 11

Considered illegitimate when Boleyn killed

• virgin queen
• she chooses the throne, duchess chooses love

Question 12

Mary I

Answer 12

Considered a king

Question 13

Ontological mobility

Answer 13

Shift nature of own existence

Question 14

The fall

Answer 14

Dympna claghan ‘the justification and the cause of women’s subjugation’

Question 15

James I

Answer 15

Fascinated with witchcraft

- ‘daemonologie’- examines black magic 1597

Question 16

Henry V

Answer 16

Died leaving Catherine widowed and she secretly married her steward and had children.
Discovered by high council and imprisoned

Question 17

Other malcontents

Answer 17

Fowler’s de Flores

Question 18

Aristotle

Answer 18

Plot over character

Webster is interested in how character copes with distress

Question 19

Revenge tragedy history

Answer 19

Developed from Senecan model, final disaster, revenge and madness

Question 20

first performance

Answer 20

Blackfriars- darkened, lit by candles

9 years after guy fawkes

Question 21

White devil

Answer 21

Set in court

Focus on heroine

Question 22

Renaissance

Answer 22

Focus on learning and curiosity

Question 23

Mary queen of Scots

Answer 23

Killed for treason, as a catholic