Jan Mock Streetcar and malfi quotes Flashcards
Quotes, critical quotes and context from the whole of Streetcar and first 3 acts of Malfi (50 cards)
Setting secrecy malfi
- ‘dark lantern’- Bosola
- ‘Sure I did hear a woman shriek’- B
- ‘nor path nor friendly clue to be my guide’- D
- ‘Cariola goes behind arras’
Setting secrecy streetcar
’ under cover of the trains noise Stanley enters’
‘undershirt and grease stained pants’
‘ she goes round the corner of the building
not to duchess
Setting morality Malfi
‘a prince’s court is like a common fountain’
‘flow pure silver drops’- A
Setting morality Streetcar
‘back wall transparent’
‘prostitute rolled a drunkard’ ‘struggle’
setting territory Malfi
‘lovely squire that carries coal up to her lodgings’
‘lay her general territory to waste’
Setting territory Streetcar
‘Get OUT of the bathroom!’
‘singing contrapuntally’
Violence constantly alluded to Malfi
‘I would have their bodies burnt in a coal pit’
‘Whose throat must I cut?’ B
Violence constantly alluded to Streetcar
‘seizes the atomizer;
‘snatched the letters up’
‘rips off the ribbon’
Violence power and control Malfi
‘toss her palace bout her ears’
‘lay her general territory to waste’
Violence power and control Streetcar
‘hurls the phone to the floor, dissonant brass and piano as room fades to darkness’
‘tosses radio’
Violence sexuality Malfi
‘this was my fathers poinard. do you see?’
‘I loathe to see it grow rusty’
Violence sexuality Streetcar
‘maybe he’ll strike you or maybe he’ll grunt and kiss you’
‘we’ve had this date with each other since the beginning’
gender female secrecy as an attack Malfi
‘as those that trade in poison keep poison from their children’
‘lovely squire that carries coal up to her lodgings’
stan spying, investigating
gender female secrecy as an attack Streetcar
‘under cover of the trains noise Stanley enters’
‘snatched the letters up’
‘rips off the ribbon’
Gender male sexuality as violent Malfi
‘this was my fathers poinard. do you see?’
‘toss her palace bout her ears’
Gender male sexuality as violent Streetcar
‘we’ve had this date with each other since the beginning!’
‘maybe he’ll strike you, or maybe he’ll grunt and kiss you!’
Gender women as objects Malfi
‘this is flesh and blood, sir, not the alabaster kneels’
‘lay her general territory to waste’
Gender women as objects Streetcar
‘soft people have got to be seductive, put on soft colours’
‘comes around corner in blowing shirt, stands in potieres in silk bra’
Stagecraft light Malfi
‘dark lantern’
‘stains the time past, lights the time to come’
Stagecraft light Streetcar
‘seizes paper lantern, tearing it off’
‘lurid reflections’
Stagecraft props Malfi
‘kind of pity in mine eye (handkerchief F)
‘vowed never to part with it’- ring D
Stagecraft props streetcar
‘hangs open with flowery dresses’
‘dragged to the centre of the room’
Stagecraft soundscape malfi
‘Sure I did hear a woman shriek’- B
‘whos there? what art thou?’
Outsiders psychological isolation Malfi
‘we bear a rotten and dead body’
‘rails at those things which he wants’
