Critics Flashcards
Terence Eagleton, Law and Passion
‘Opposition between law and passion’
Alex Aronson, incomplete personalities
‘Both Angelo and Isabella hide their incomplete, crippled personalities behind a pose of chastity and self control’
Barbara Everett, right and wrong
‘Extreme right does exceeding wrong’
David Stevenson, Human charity
‘She is the living antidote to all human charity’
G. Wilson Knight, humanity in Mistress O
‘More humanity in the charity of Mistress Overdone than in Isabella’
W. Empson, ethics of Duke
‘the higher you pitch the ethics of the Duke, the more surprising you must find his behaviour’
Wilbur Dunkel, Lucios function
‘the function of Lucio is to keep us informed and unite the characters’
Robert N. Watson, Marriage function
‘Marriage is an instrument for controlling desire’
G. Wilson Knight, affection for Claudio
‘no real affection for Claudio’
Northrop Frye, Angelo’s hypocrisy
‘Angelo is the most contemptible kind of hypocrite’
Josephine Waters Bennett, Isabella’s inexperience
‘Isabella’s flaws arise from her inexperience’
Wilbur Hazlitt, Dukes plots
The Duke is ‘more absorbed in his own plots than anxious for the welfare of the state’