Critics Flashcards

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Terence Eagleton, Law and Passion

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‘Opposition between law and passion’

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Alex Aronson, incomplete personalities

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‘Both Angelo and Isabella hide their incomplete, crippled personalities behind a pose of chastity and self control’

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Barbara Everett, right and wrong

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‘Extreme right does exceeding wrong’

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David Stevenson, Human charity

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‘She is the living antidote to all human charity’

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G. Wilson Knight, humanity in Mistress O

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‘More humanity in the charity of Mistress Overdone than in Isabella’

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W. Empson, ethics of Duke

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‘the higher you pitch the ethics of the Duke, the more surprising you must find his behaviour’

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Wilbur Dunkel, Lucios function

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‘the function of Lucio is to keep us informed and unite the characters’

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Robert N. Watson, Marriage function

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‘Marriage is an instrument for controlling desire’

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G. Wilson Knight, affection for Claudio

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‘no real affection for Claudio’

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Northrop Frye, Angelo’s hypocrisy

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‘Angelo is the most contemptible kind of hypocrite’

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Josephine Waters Bennett, Isabella’s inexperience

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‘Isabella’s flaws arise from her inexperience’

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Wilbur Hazlitt, Dukes plots

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The Duke is ‘more absorbed in his own plots than anxious for the welfare of the state’

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