John Webster critical quotes

Question 1

What is the division whihc Robert Whitman identifies?

Answer 1

Between ‘Apollonian’ and ‘Dionysian’ - the competing impulses and moral standards of order and pleasure
Central interest in ‘the antagonisms of human expereince’

Question 2

What does Susan C Baker say of the Duchess

Answer 2

She is a ;static protagonist’ -e g does not achieve anagnorisis

Question 3

What does Dorothea C Crook theorise?

Answer 3

Suggests that the condition of anagnorisis is that self-knowledge is reached – but this does NOT have to be the main character, in this case is of the audience

Question 4

What does Albert Tricomi say of the use of body parts etc

Answer 4

Use of images of body parts and lycanthrophy suggests ‘the violent alienation of the self from its own proper nature’

Question 5

What does Frank Whigham say is central to DOM?

Answer 5

Analyses the tension which changing rules of social mobility causes for the ‘shaping of the social self’