duchess of malfi quotes

Question 1

Duchess

Answer 1

‘i am the duchess of malfi still’ (4.2)
‘prince’
‘is only pitied and not feared’
‘whether i am doomed to live or die’ (3.2)

Question 2

ferdinand

Answer 2

‘she died young’
‘cover her face’
‘that body of hers’ (4.2)

Question 3

cardinal

Answer 3

‘tedious is a guilty conscience’ (act 5)
‘you are deceived of him’ (1.1)
‘to view another spacious world’ (2.4)
‘find a constant woman’(2.4)

Question 4

julia

Answer 4

‘signor delio’(2.4)
‘tis of my oldest suitors’(2.4)
‘you fear my constancy because you have approved those giddy and wild’

Question 5

bosola

Answer 5

‘i would hang on their ears like a horse leach’ (1.1)
‘though i loathed the evil, yet i loved it’ (4.2)
‘we are merely the stars tennis balls’(5.4)

Question 6

cariola

Answer 6

‘i will not die’ (4.2)
‘whether the spirit of greatness or of women’ (1.1)
‘villains, tyrants murderers call for help’

Question 7

delio

Answer 7

‘join all our forces’ (5.5)
‘you are welcome to your country dear antonio’ (1.1)
‘the law to him is like a foul black cobweb to a spider’ about ferdinand(1.1)

Question 8

contemporary general play critical

Answer 8

‘sorry play’ ‘well performed’ samuel pepys
‘peace if possible; truth at all costs’ (martin luther in germany)

Question 9

duchess critical

Answer 9

‘women being…the image of sweetness’ (william painter in palace of pleasure)

Question 10

general play critical

Answer 10

contemporary: ‘sorry play’ samuel pepys

modern: ‘the play collapses under its own contradictions’
(mary beth rose)
fl lucas: addresses ferdinand’s incest has desires