Duchess of Malfi Flashcards
Thou art undone….
Dost thou know what reputation is?
Ferdinand
I fell in the galleys…
In your service.
Bosola
May our sweet affections, like spheres…
Be still in motion.
Antonio
As direful to my soul as is the sword…
Unto a wretch hath slain his father.
Bosola
So most widows say…
But commonly that motion lasts no longer.
Cardinal
Diamonds are of most value
They say, that have passed through the most jeweller’s hands.
Duchess
Whores…
By that rule, are precious.
Ferdinand
Yet in our noble suff’rings she hath none…
Contempt of pain - that we call our own.
Antonio
A miserable knowledge of the…
Small compass of our prison.
Bosola
Use my wedding ring…
Did vow never to part with it/but to my second husband
Duchess
I winked…
And chose my husband.
Duchess
Raise yourself….
My hand to help you.
Duchess
What cannot a neat knave with a smooth tale…
Make a women believe? Farewell lusty widow
Ferdinand
Or my imagination will carry me…
To see her in the shameful act of sin
Ferdinand
What suitors do solicit her for marriage…
I would not have her marry again
Cardinal
I entered you into my heart….
Before you would…call for the keys.
Duchess
The death of young wolves…..
Is never to be pitied
The office of justice is perverted quite when….
One thief hangs over another
Critic -TS Eliot
‘Webster is a dramatic genius directed towards chaos’ perhaps through death
I am quick…
With child
Who would be afraid on’t death…
Knowing to meet such excellent company in th’ other world?
Come violent death, serve for mandragora…
To make me sleep
But my body bestow…
Upon my women: will you?
Ambition, madness…
Is a great man’s madness
I rise it…
Higher
To bring her to…
Despair
Such weddings may more properly….
Be said to be executed than celebrated
Yet, belive’t, your darkest actions…
Nah your privat’st thoughts, will come to light
Damn her….
That body of hers
Say then my corruption….
Grew out of horse dung. I am your creature
Nah, you are much…
Too swelled already
She’s a young widow…
I’ll not have her marry again
Why should only I / of all the other princes of the world…
Be cases up like a holy relic
Shoveller - “Ferdinand’s words…
are heavily laced with incestuous erotic tension”
Jankowski - “Throughout…
the Duchess remains a site of contested moralilties”
Sarkar - “in the DOM, the theme…
of insanity is mulitlayered”
