Duchess of Malfi

Question 1

Thou art undone….

Answer 1

Dost thou know what reputation is?

Ferdinand

Question 2

I fell in the galleys…

Answer 2

In your service.

Bosola

Question 3

May our sweet affections, like spheres…

Answer 3

Be still in motion.

Antonio

Question 4

As direful to my soul as is the sword…

Answer 4

Unto a wretch hath slain his father.

Bosola

Question 5

So most widows say…

Answer 5

But commonly that motion lasts no longer.

Cardinal

Question 6

Diamonds are of most value

Answer 6

They say, that have passed through the most jeweller’s hands.

Duchess

Question 7

Whores…

Answer 7

By that rule, are precious.

Ferdinand

Question 8

Yet in our noble suff’rings she hath none…

Answer 8

Contempt of pain - that we call our own.

Antonio

Question 9

A miserable knowledge of the…

Answer 9

Small compass of our prison.

Bosola

Question 10

Use my wedding ring…

Answer 10

Did vow never to part with it/but to my second husband

Duchess

Question 11

I winked…

Answer 11

And chose my husband.

Duchess

Question 12

Raise yourself….

Answer 12

My hand to help you.

Duchess

Question 13

What cannot a neat knave with a smooth tale…

Answer 13

Make a women believe? Farewell lusty widow

Ferdinand

Question 14

Or my imagination will carry me…

Answer 14

To see her in the shameful act of sin

Ferdinand

Question 15

What suitors do solicit her for marriage…

Answer 15

I would not have her marry again

Cardinal

Question 16

I entered you into my heart….

Answer 16

Before you would…call for the keys.

Duchess

Question 17

The death of young wolves…..

Answer 17

Is never to be pitied

Question 18

The office of justice is perverted quite when….

Answer 18

One thief hangs over another

Question 19

Critic -TS Eliot

Answer 19

‘Webster is a dramatic genius directed towards chaos’ perhaps through death

Question 20

I am quick…

Answer 20

With child

Question 21

Who would be afraid on’t death…

Answer 21

Knowing to meet such excellent company in th’ other world?

Question 22

Come violent death, serve for mandragora…

Answer 22

To make me sleep

Question 23

But my body bestow…

Answer 23

Upon my women: will you?

Question 24

Ambition, madness…

Answer 24

Is a great man’s madness

Question 25

I rise it…

Answer 25

Higher

Question 26

To bring her to…

Answer 26

Despair

Question 27

Such weddings may more properly….

Answer 27

Be said to be executed than celebrated

Question 28

Yet, belive’t, your darkest actions…

Answer 28

Nah your privat’st thoughts, will come to light

Question 29

Damn her….

Answer 29

That body of hers

Question 30

Say then my corruption….

Answer 30

Grew out of horse dung. I am your creature

Question 31

Nah, you are much…

Answer 31

Too swelled already

Question 32

She’s a young widow…

Answer 32

I’ll not have her marry again

Question 33

Why should only I / of all the other princes of the world…

Answer 33

Be cases up like a holy relic

Question 34

Shoveller - “Ferdinand’s words…

Answer 34

are heavily laced with incestuous erotic tension”

Question 35

Jankowski - “Throughout…

Answer 35

the Duchess remains a site of contested moralilties”

Question 36

Sarkar - “in the DOM, the theme…

Answer 36

of insanity is mulitlayered”