CRITICS MALFI

Question 1

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Answer 1

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Question 2

Mary Beth Rose

Answer 2

the play collapses under its own contradictions.

Question 3

Christina Luckyj
Duchess impulse

Answer 3

‘acts on human impulses in the name of virtue only to discover that she cannot control the consequences of her choices.’

Question 4

Jon Russel Brown
political relevance

Answer 4

‘the story of the tragedy was a syndrome for contemporary issues.’

Question 5

C.V Boyer
Bosola’s death

Answer 5

‘his previous conduct has been too wicked for us to lament his fall as that of a morally good man.’

Question 6

F.L Lucas
horrors of war

Answer 6

‘too many of the present generation have stumbled..among corpses on the battlefields of France to be much impressed.’

Question 7

F.L. Lucas
Brothers outlive the Duchess

Answer 7

‘it lives too long, when it outlives the heroine.’

Question 8

Lord David Cecil
Corruption and perspective

Answer 8

‘the world as seen [by Webster] is of its nature incurably corrupt.’

Question 9

Dominic baker smith
God

Answer 9

‘Webster’s God, unlike his devil, is a hidden one.’
his text Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft