Duchess of Malfi Critics Flashcards
McLuskie
The Affair Cardinal had with Julia -he only expresses his “satisfaction of his sexual prowess”
Bradbrook
“The Cardinal knows already that he is in Hell”
White
The Duchess “achieves heroism through her death”
Bogard
The play shows the “presence of evil and decay which drags all mankind to death”
T.S Eliot
“Webster was much possessed by death”
Callaghan
“Female desire was seen as a disease and a monstrous abnormality.”
Jankowski
“Challenges the basic concept of the early modern marriage.”
Rsc swan theatre production 2018, reviewed by The Guardian
“Brings Webster’s gloomy world to vigorous life”
RSC
“Bloodthirsty child, collaborative dramatist”
Woodbridge
“The Duchess is a hero of desire”
Reider
“Describes the play as a cautionary tale”