Flamineo Flashcards
Flamineo convincing Bracciano that Vittoria likes him
Irony - corruption of the rich and difference between appearance and reality
Nobility judged on sinfulness - ability to woo women etc - sycophantic
‘pursue your noble wishes’
Flamineo listening to Camillo’s issues
Double entendre - wordplay on ‘count’ presents Camillo’s lack of intelligence and impotence - duality of meaning mirrors machiavellian principles
‘strange you should lose your count’
Flamineo convincing Bracciano that Vittoria likes him
Misogynistic - presents women as cunning and manipulative
Use of noble syntax presents Flamineo attempting to be seen as noble compared to women - polarisation
‘her coyness? That’s but the superficies of lust most women have… O they are politic’
Flamingo talking of female attitude to marriage
Women clamour for good marriages but are immoral and seek affairs when they have a marriage - duplicity of women
Zoomorphic imagery matches animalistic base instincts of women such as lust
‘tis just like a summer bird-cage in a garden: the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair…’
Flamineo talking of Camillo
Harsh lexis of plosives - brutality of machiavellian order
quicksilver = poison used in revenge tragedies also used by gilders who went insane from poisoning - presents Camillo as unworthy of being a noble and equivalent to a peasant
Liver is seat of passions - Camillo as lacking in passion - impotence
‘a gilder that hath his brains perished with quicksilver is not more cold in the liver’
Flamingo talking of Camillo
Insult to Camillo is Flamineo has called women ‘politic’ - emasculates Camillo
Lack of intelligence of Camillo - difference between appearance and reality - inept for position of power
‘this fellow by his appeal some men would judge a politician, but call his wit into question…’
Flamineo advising Camillo on what to do
Corruption of society - religion should be abstained from - ease of which men are drawn away from religion
‘let her not go to church’
‘‘twere for her honour’
Flamineo advising Camillo on what to do
Flamineo acts likes a lawyer - presents law as written by those in power - corrupt
Difference between appearance and reality - Flamineo says he wants nothing but actually wants Vittoria to be with Bracciano - mirrors that law written in latin - unintelligible on the surface like Flamineo’s motives
‘this is my counsel and I ask no fee for’t’
Flamineo advising Camillo on what to do
Disease imagery - Camillo and those who are corrupted by society (LC) don’t see it as diseased but the real malcontents know it is
Appearance v reality
‘they that have the yellow jaundice think all objects they look on to be yellow’
Flamineo arguing with Cornelia
Would rather have had a prostitute as mother - plurality of fathers to take care of him - society rewarding infidelity and sin
Raised in sinful environment would have made his sinfulness easier attained
‘I would the commons’t courtesan in Rome had been my mother’
Flamineo telling Bracciano about the plans he’s made for him and Vittoria
Elevates Vittoria to level of deity - ironic - against one of 10 commandments - do not covet what your neighbour has - fundamental sin
‘so high a spirit’
Flamineo in asides about Camillo
Diamond imagery - supposed to be the hardest precious stone - artificiality of Camillo as a diamond suggests impotence
Irony - also represent strength, clarity and truth - more so represents Flamineo
‘you are a goodly foil, I confess, well set out - but covered with a false stone, yon counterfeit diamond’
Flamineo after Bracciano has finished talking to Isabella, Monticelso and Francisco
Prose
suggests private sphere where Flam can do away with appearance v reality of public sphere - suggests what they are talking of is immoral bc Flam - lesser gentry - talking as an equal to B - a duke - Machiavellian practices
Flamineo talking with Marcello about Vittoria before her trial
Flam names B as the spirit here and him as the witch who controls it - like he manipulated B into being with his sister for his own gain
Criticism of JI’s patronage which enc. machiavellian vying for power - James is creating the witches he despises
‘followest the duke, feeds’t his victories, as witches do their serviceable spirits’
Flamingo talking with Marcello about Vittoria before her trial
Nihilistic way of thinking - you get little for being virtuous and loyal (metaphor of water in hands) and water can spread disease - presents inevitability of machiavellian infection (into blood) bc being bad reaps more benefits
‘even with thy prodigal blood: what hast got?… a poor handful, which in thy palm thou bears’t, as men hold water’
Flamineo whilst talking with Lodovico and Marcello
Ref to ‘the white devil’ - no one is completely innocent in this play - even those who ‘cure’ sinfulness of themselves/others through their virtue are still using a type of poison to do so - like Isab - she lies whilst protecting B’s reputation and gave Lodo pension for his loyalty when it will only fuel his sinfulness
‘physicians that cure poisons still do work with counter poisons’
Flamineo when Bracciano turns on him for pandering his whore sister to him
Suggests there may be multiple ‘white devils’ - dentals reinforce brutality of society if this is the case - link to parable of the white devil
Semi-colon and capitalisation of ‘Duke’ but not ‘Secretary presents Flamineo’s subordinate nature and the division between him and duke socially
Spanish fig = poison ; Italian sallet = Italian salad - poisonous concoction - both Catholic countries that are represented by poison - xenophobia and demonisation of ‘Catholic other’
‘as in this world there are degrees of evils: so in this world there are degrees of devils. You’re a great Duke; I your poor secretary. I do look now for an Spanish fig, or an Italian sallet daily’
Flamineo at the wedding of Vittoria and Bracciano
Flam refs Capuchins - religious order of monks know for piety but also violence - mirrors previous scene when precautions were taken so papal election was not influenced by bribery hypocrisy - appearance v reality
Est. in 1528 to restore original austerity and simplicity of Franciscans - ref to Francisco and his crusade for revenge
‘Capuchins’
Flamineo and Marcello at the wedding of Vittoria and Bracciano
Marcello resents Zanche as a devil - but not the white devil bc her dark skin is synonymous with darkness and evil
Falm contrasts this with ‘light’ - underhanded - Zanche as an instrument to witchcraft and completely sinful on the surface due to dark skin
‘why doth this devil haunt you, say? (Marc)
‘I know not: for by this light, I do not conjure her’
Flamineo talking with Hortensio at Vittoria and Bracciano’s wedding
Pun on ‘satan’ but also alludes to disguise of appearance v the reality of women - they are sinful and are the beginnings of STDs, so satan - their ‘lord’ cannot save them and neither can pretty clothes
‘their satin cannot save them. I am confident they have a certain spice of the disease’
Marcello talking about Flamineo to Cornelia at Vittoria and Bracciano’s wedding
Presents Flamineo as destroyer of Catholic values while Maarcello is the upholder?
Reflects wider situation during setting in Europe of factions of Christianity emerging - mending of crucifix presents fear of English that Catholicism will take over - WD performed soon after Gunpowder Plot 1605
‘he took the crucifix between his hands and broke a limb off’
Flamineo murdering his brother, Marcello at Vittoria and Bracciano’s wedding
Desensitisation of murder and violence seen in stage directions and continuing of wedding celebrations - links to dumb shows - Marcello’s death is unexpected and not gory
‘Flamineo runs Marcello through’
Marcello’s dying words after Flamineo has killed him at Vittoria and Bracciano’s wedding
Reference to family trees being corrupted by ambition i.e. ambition of V as seen through her reference to wide yew tree in her dream - message that natural order should be respected - JI encouraged nobles to vie for power through his patronage to favourites = enc. machiavellian ideals - Webster foreshadows J’s downfall bc of this through half rhyme
‘that tree shall long time keep a steady foot, whose branches spread no wider than the root’
Flamineo trying to win over Giovanni’s favour
Both birds described as female but both relate to G now and in future = emasculates G - perhaps Flam thinks he can control G as he did B by overseeing the growth of his ‘tallants’ so they will grow to serve Flam
‘wise was the courtly peacock’
‘said the eagle was a far fairer bird than herself, not in respect of her feathers, but in respect of her long tallants ‘
