Critics Flashcards
Ribner
Duchess is ordinary humanity and continues her life through her children
PB murray
Radiant of life of the duchess cannotbe killed
Antonio is model of Christian gentry
Christopher hart
Bosola is a cut throat
Bradbrook
Bosola is instrument in duchess downfall but is the strongest witness to her virtue
Lee bliss
Cardinals coldness more terrifying than f
Frank whigham
F eyes ‘dazzle’ as he sees his own death in his sisters
Rs white
Tragedy of a virtuous woman who achieves heroism through her death
Travis Bogard
Ultimate tragedy is not death if any individual but presence of evil which drags man to death
David cecil
Evil more powerful than good
Rupert brooke
At death men are themselves
TS Elliot
Obsession with death, skull beneath the skin
Busino
Rejected play for religious reason
Pepys
‘A sorry play’
Hazlitt 2
‘Nearest to shakespeare’
Raymond Williams
‘Murderously destructive’