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Act 1 bosola

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‘I do haunt you still’

‘He and his brother are like plum-trees that grow crooked over standing pools’

‘I was lured to you’

‘Whose throat must I cut’

‘I am your creature’

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He and his brother are like plum-trees that grow crooked over standing pools

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Plum - symbolic of preservance and hope - as sign of winter ending - ironic

Crooked - corruption.

Standing - stagnant water - breeding ground for bacteria and parasites

Corruption thoughout state due to corrupt rule - signal to audience

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I am your creature

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Your - hands himself over - no self worth

Creature - dehumanises self - knows it’s wrong but does it

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Whose throat must I cut

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Suggest corruption leads to death and suffering

Eager

Right prediction

Suggest he doesn’t like doing it ‘must’

Monosyllabic emphasises simplicity of murder

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I was lured to you

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Ferdinand called for Bosola to get him to spy on duchess

Lured - temp (a person/animal) to do something - offering some form of reward - corrupt

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‘I do haunt you still’

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Threat

Conflict

Monosyllabic

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Act 1

Ferdinand

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Who took the ring oftn’st

A must preserve and turbulent nature;/ what appears in him mirth is merely outside

She’s a young widow,/ I would not have her marry again

You are a widow/ you know already what man is’

‘You life in a rank pasture, here i’the’ court

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They are most luxurious/ Will we’d twice

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Luxury of widows who remarry

Playing off idea

Widows are lecherous and uncontrollable

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You are a widow/ you know already what man is

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lil incest - thinks of her sexually

Chastity - have

Sexual - he doesn’t want her to marry

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‘She is a young widow I would not hate her marry again’

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Young - 21 century - why can’t she marry

Not - control and power - he needs/wants

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You live in rank pasture, he i th Court

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! Yeah

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Who took the ring oftn’st

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Ring foreshadows

Game- James introduced

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A most preserve and turbulent nature/ what appears in him mirth is merely outside

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Turbulent - conflict, disorder

Preserve - unaltered

Mirth - laughter

Outside - appearance v reality

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The cardinal act 1

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‘This Great fellow were able to posses the greatest devil, and make him worse’

‘He is a melancholy churchman’

‘He strews in his way flatters, panders, Intelligencers, atheists, and a thousand such political monsters’

‘He should have been pope…. bestow bribes’

‘Wisdom begins at the end: remember it’

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Wisdom begins at the end Remember it

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Foreshadows thoughtless acts

Reference to end of life

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He should have been pope … bestow bribes

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Church is corrupt

He’s corrupt

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He is a melancholy churchman

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Pensive sadness (like Bosola) in Italy - infests City

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He stews in his way, flatters, panders, intelligencers, atheists, and a thousand such political monsters

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Opposite of what a cardinal is to be like

He’s corrupt

Panders - pimp

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This great fellow were able to posses the greatest devil, and make him worse

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Irony he works in church

Corruption in religion attack in Catholicism and church.

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Antonio Act 1

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If’t some chance/ cursed example poison’t bear the head/ Death and disease through the whole land spread’

‘His foul melancholy/ will poison all his goodness’

‘You never fix’d your eye on three fair medals/ cast in one figure of so different temper

‘Ambition madam is a great mans madness’

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Ambition madam is a great man’s madness

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Ambition 
Antonio 
Duchess 
Cardinal 
Bosola 
Foreshadows

His hesitancy to be ambitious and his claims that he deserves benefits for being virtuous is not just based on cultural normals

Social conformity- acceptance of his class

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This foul melancholy/ will poison all his goodness

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Depression

Bosola has good in him - redeemable

Poison - death and disease imagery

Corruption

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If’t chance/ some cursed example poison’t near the head/ Death and disease through the whole land spread

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Death and disease imagery

Rhyming couplet - speedy rhythm - reflects speed of spread

Structurally important - corrupt rule leads to corruption throughout state
Metaphor expanded when Bosola refers to court as standing pools

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You’d never fix’d your eye on three fair medals/ cast in one figure, of so different temper’

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All different p

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Duchess act 1

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‘So divine a continence’

‘Such Noble virtue’

‘She stains the time past, lights the time to come’

‘Diamonds are of most value/ they say, that have passed through most jewellers hands’

‘This is terrible good counsel’

‘This goodly roof of yours is too low built/ I cannot stand upright in’t not discourse/ without I raise it higher

‘Shall this move me’

26
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She stains the time past, lights the time to come

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Stain- everlasting

Lights- goodness and hope. Irony - life

27
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This is terrible food council

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Advice

28
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So divine a conscience

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!

29
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Such noble virtue

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Virtue - high moral standards

30
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Diamonds are of most value/ They say, that have passed through most jewellers hands’

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Does not conform to society’s role

Contextually women value is in Chasity

She still has value

She says very little in this section when her brothers tell her not to marry - she’s witty

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Bosola Act 2

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What thing is this outward form of man/ to be beloved?

I have a trick may chance discoed it

You are a false steward

Why, now this most apparent. It’s precise fellow/ is the Duchess’ bawd

‘I’ll send/ a letter that shall make her brothers’ galls/ O’erfloe their livers

32
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I’ll send
A letter that shall make her brothers galls
O’er flow their livers

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Pride - lucifer

Hobris - comes before fall

33
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I have a trick may chance discover it

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Apricot trick

34
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Why not tia most apparent. Tis precise fellow/ Is the Duchess’ bawd

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Antonio is caught

35
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I look no higher than I can reach

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Ironic - challenges Duchess

36
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What is this outward form of man to be belovd

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!

37
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You are a false steward

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After accused of poisoning apricots by Antonio

38
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Ferdinand Act 2

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I have this night digg’d up a mandrake

Grow a notorious strumpet

Apply desperate physic

Excellent hyena

I would have their bodies Burnt in a coal-pit

I’ll find scorpions to string my whips/and fix her in a general eclipse

39
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Excellent hyena

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F calls Duchess

40
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I’ll find scorpions to string my whips

And fix her in a general eclipse

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Act 2 scene 5 last lines after F reveals he won’t do or say anything till he knows the father

41
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Boil their bastards

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Plosives alliteration

42
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Grow a notorious strumpet

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When he discovers duchess is pregnant

43
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I have this night digg’d up a mandrake

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Plants that can make you mad

44
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Antonio Act 2

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O my most trusted Delio, we are lost

I am lost in amazement: I know not what to think on’t

[Aside] this fellow will undo me

How i do play the fool with mine own danger

You are an impudent snake indeed sir

45
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O my most trusted Delio we are lost

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We are lost

Monosyllabic

Do what going

46
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I am lost in amazement

I know not what to think on’t

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Unprepared

X leading

47
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How do I play the fool with mine own danger

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.

48
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You are an impudent snake indeed sir

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Bosola after he accuses him of poisoning

49
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[aside] this fellow will undo me

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A about B who claims he’s come to pray but really is spying

50
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‘They are like the base, nay they are the same

When they seek shameful ways to avoid shame

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Appearance v reality

sententiae - rounds of speech before exit of character to leave audience with short time to digest

Webster highlights Antonio’s discomfort - hide Union - shameful to defy class boundaries and to love and marry

51
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Duchess Act 2

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Your arm Antonio: do I not grow fat

[Aside.] good her colour rises

She’s exposed/ unto the worst of torture, pain and fear

52
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She’s exposed/ unto the worst of torture pain and fear

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List of 3

He is weak - can’t handle

53
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[aside] Good her colour rises

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Confidence in plan

54
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Your arm Antonio

Do I not grow fat

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Command as you would a steward but also wants his comfort

She’s in control

She thinks she’s being subtle but Bosola already suspects so catches the double meaning

55
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Act 2

The cardinal

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You fly beyond your reason

Why do you make yourself/ so wild a tempest

I have taken you off your melancholy perch/ bore you upon my fist…and let you fly at it’

‘Curs’d creature/ unequal nature to place women’s hearts/ So far upon the left side’

‘Shall our blood/ the royal blood of Aragan and Castile/ Be thus attained

Are you stark mad

56
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Why do you make your self so wild a tempest

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cardinal reply to Ferdinands anger at duchess pregnancy

Calm

57
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You fly beyond your reason

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After Ferdinand dreams of duchess with men in Bed even Bosola

CALM

58
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Are you stark mad

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Cardinal is calm

59
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I have taken you off your melanchoky perch/ bore you upon my fist …let you fly at it’

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Falcon imagery like taming of the shrew - animal

60
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Cur’d creature

Unequal nature to place women’s hearts so far upon the left side

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!

61
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Shall our blood/
The royal blood of Aragan and Castile
Be this attained

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Depth of outrage - Jacobean audience would realise socially issue

Reputation

Contrast with ‘infected blood’ of Ferdinand
Cardinal is corrupt

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