Critics + Productions Flashcards
Greenlaw
Satan is mastered by unworthy ambition and lust for power
Waldock
Eve
In her conduct there is a measure of stupidity
Hart
Ferdinand and the cardinal
The brothers are driven by a delight in malice
Aughterson
Webster ends his plays (DoM and TWD) with young boys
= symbolic of hope and rebirth
Court production
1971
Madmen kill the duchess - denied a noble death
Fish
Satan’s actions serve to highlight Adam’s obedience and loyalty to god
Cecil
The world as seen by Webster is of its nature incurable corrupt
Jardine
The duchess acts as if her status gave her real power, in this she is proved pathetically wrong
BBC production
1972
Bosola is shorter than the rest
Cardinal wearing red - historically expensive, high status in the catholic church
McColley
The fall is an inevitable manifestation of weakness inherent in man
Hodge
To Satan, eve seemed less than equal. To Adam, she seems evidently superior.
Donnelly
Love is completely removed
Oakes
It is the happiness of marriage that makes her death so tragic
Revard
Eve was created to attract Adam’s love, not his subjection
Bowers
Adam repudiates (rejects) his duty to protect eve and breaking the hierarchical chain of being
Marcus
Satiric indictment of Catholicism
McColley part 2
Milton has failed to justify the ways of God to men
Gilbert
Eve is satanically inspired
Cecil
Webster always talks about the act of sin and its consequences
Murray
The nearer to the church one gets, the farther he is from God
Hart part 2
Bosola is a twisted misanthrope and cut throat
Brooke
The end is a maze of death and madness
Lowenstein
Motivations and consequences of sin are disobedience, loss and restoration
Landor
Adam suffers most, and on whom consequences have the most influence
Empson
Milton thought men out to control women
Gilbert part 2
Eve is a patriarchal ideal of womanhood, deprived of her autonomous identity
London production
1995
Duchess slaps Ferdinand when he enters her chamber and threatens him with his own dagger
Globe production
2024
Duchess is flirtatious and finds thrill in defying patriarchal order
Tennenhouse
Womanhood and sovereignty are logically incompatible
Callaghan
Female desire was seen as a disease and monstrous abnormality
