Critic Quotes Flashcards
Ribner Duchess
The Duchess stands for humanity and love
Ribner Bosola
Bosola is the unifying element in DOM
Murray the Duchess
Radiant spirit cannot be killed
Murray Antonio
Modelled on ideal Christian gentility
Hart
Bosola a twisted cut-throat
Bradbrook Bosola
Never permitted the luxury of being a self
Bradbrook Cardinal
The Cardinal knows already that he is in hell
Bliss
Cardinal’s unemotional detachment more terrifying than Ferdinand’s impassioned raving
White on the Duchess
A virtuous woman
Roider
A cautionary tale which shows what can happen when women marry without the Proper consent
White
Villains meet their deaths in poetic justice
Cecil
Webster presents evil as far more powerful than good
Cecil on Webster’s world
Incurably corrupt … Apparent beauties a delusion
T S Eliot
(Webster is) a very great literary and dramatic genius
Brooke instincts
Webster’s world inhabited by people driven only by blind ruinous instinct
Brooke death
W adopts the romantic convention that men are most themselves in the second of death
Tyan
Characters die superbly, asserting selfhood to the last breath
