Critics for Duchess of Malfi

Question 1

Jankowski (The Duchess)

Answer 1

“The Duchess becomes an uneasy and threatening figure”

Question 2

Jankowski (Death of Duchess)

Answer 2

“abandons her duties of body politic for those of her body natural and for this she has to die”

Question 3

David Gunby

Answer 3

Malcontent-“character divided within himself”

Question 4

P B Murray

Answer 4

“The radiant spirit of the Duchess cannot be killed”

Question 5

Michael Neil

Answer 5

“Antonio can be no model of virtue”

Question 6

Lee Bliss

Answer 6

“The cardinals cool, unemotional detachment is far more terrifying than ferdinands impassioned ravings”

Question 7

Dympna Callaghan

Answer 7

female desire seen as a - “disease or monstrous abnormality”

Question 8

feminist

Answer 8

Duality of virtuous (life) and fulfilling married life”

Question 9

Andrew Marr

Answer 9

“suffering transforms her from a romantic widow to a tragic heroine”

Question 10

Sellar and yeatman

Answer 10

“James 1st slobbered at the mouth and had favourites”

Question 11

Thoma Beard-Theatre of God’s judgement (lusty widow)

Answer 11

“nothing but plain whoredome and fornification”

Question 12

Thomas beard-theatre of God’s Judgement (Cardinal)

Answer 12

(god) “used him as an instrument to punish those who under veil of secret marriage” lusted

Question 13

Aristotle

Answer 13

“some error of judgement or frailty”

Question 14

Linda woodbridge

Answer 14

“the dogged sexiness of the duchess - not to mention her ravenous cravings in pregnancy- has troubled and intrigued audiences for centurys”

Question 15

Rupert Brooke

Answer 15

“inhabited by people driven like animals , and perhaps like men, only by their instincts”

Question 16

leah Marcus

Answer 16

“not an act of unbridled lust but and act of heroic resistance”

Question 17

Christina Luckyi

Answer 17

“refined sexual beauty”
“victimised by the cruel cynicism of men”

Question 18

Lisa Jardine

Answer 18

“like Hamlets mother, steps out of the path of duty and marries for lust”

Question 19

Emma Smith

Answer 19

“metaphysical poet who brings his rather jaded eye”

Question 19

Emma smith (intelligence)

Answer 19

“intelligence goes sour”

Question 20

Doctor Faustus- echo of epilogue

Answer 20

‘we ought never to climb higher than our force permiteth”

Question 21

Basilikon Doron

Answer 21

employ “every man according to his gifts”

Question 22

Revelation 17:5 (Whore of babylon)

Answer 22

“mystery Babylon the great mother of harlots and abominations of the earth”

Question 23

The Rule and Exercise of holy living

Answer 23

“God hath restrained thy former licence and bridled their desire”

Question 24

James 1st women

Answer 24

“frail and weak and more prone to the devils lure”

Question 25

Tilbury Speech (Elizabeth)

Answer 25

“I know I have the body of a weak feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king”

Question 26

Elizabeth (perpetual virgin)

Answer 26

“I am already joined in marriage with a husband, namely the kingdom of England”

Question 27

Hamlet (Lust in his mother)

Answer 27

“the rank sweat of an enseamed bed” that he feels her “matron’s bones” should be too old for.

Question 28

Juan Luis Vives (conduct for christian women)

Answer 28

“it becometh not a maiden to talke, where hir father and mother are in communication about hir marriage”

Question 29

Juan Luis Vives (remarriage)

Answer 29

“shows herself to another and cast away her spouse christ”

Question 30

jennifer Panek

Answer 30

“a society that depended on the recirculation of their assets… men as providers of pleasure in exchange for goods”