Lodovico

Question 1

Lodovico’s exile

Rhyming couplet of parable of the sheep and the goat - morally didactic at end of scene
Twisted version - good works result from our rs with the shepherd but the high nobility (shepherd) lead lower classes astray

Answer 1

‘Great men sell sheep, thus to be cut in pieces, when first they have shorn them bare and sold their fleeces’

Question 2

Lodovico’s exile

Thunder (machiavellian actions carried out by lower classes for upper classes) is adored by the lower classes/machiavellians who are destroyed by it
Thunder is caused by lightning - appearance v reality - thunder (lc) on surface but lightning (uc) beneath

Answer 2

‘violent thunder is adored by those are pashed in pieces by it’

Question 3

Lodovico’s exile

Difference between appearance and reality - Lodovico tells A+G that morality is untrue and a false/artificial hope

Answer 3

‘leave your painted comforts’

Question 4

Lodovico’s exile

Lodovico in between A+G - shows that Lodovico will do as what his higher ups have done, to them - reduce them to nothing - nihilistic sinfulness

Answer 4

‘this well goes with two buckets, I must tend the pouring out of either’

Question 5

Lodovico’s exile

Irony - corruption of charity and Catholic church - wordplay on ‘pray’ only highlights this further
Criticism of James upholding Anglicanism which retains corrupt practices? e.g. lay impropriation of the tithe

Answer 5

‘this is the world’s alms; pray make use of it’

Question 6

Lodovico’s exile

Parallels polarisation of women, as fortune brings one to the top or the bottom
Only favours the rich and powerful - like machiavellian women vying for power themselves

Answer 6

‘fortune’s a right whore’

Question 7

Lodovico’s exile

Presents women as lesser than men and echoes age old misogyny (e.g. Church Council of Macon in France, who debated whether women were humans)
Woman as desperate and thus more polarised when hungry

Answer 7

‘your wolf no longer seems to be a wolf than when she’s hungry’

Question 8

Lodovico with Flamineo before he hears news of his pardon

Flam and Lodo share lines = duality between them - they represent the polarisation of fortune’s wheel - Flam assc. w murder and getting nowhere w pandering V whereas Lodo is absolved

Answer 8

‘with faggots for our pillows || and be lousy’ (e.g.)

Question 9

Lodovico with Flamineo after he hears news of his pardon

Talks of V as he pleases after he is restored in fortune
Mandrakes scream and whoever hears it scream dies - V’s blood is synonymous with, and causes death and cessation of lineage though STDs
Also assc. w witchcraft - Webster making cynical comment that wc is a convenient way to remove non-conforming women - criticism of JI’s belief in wc

Answer 9

‘wilt sell me forty ounces of her blood to water a mandrake?’

Question 10

Lodovico talking with Monticelso when he becomes Pope

Dentals used to portray romantic love and lust at same time - shows how one cannot be without the other in this society
But then Lodo says Isab was poisoned - absolves self of responsibility for his lust - she poisoned him with her sexuality

Answer 10

‘Sir, I did love Bracciano’s Duchess dearly, or rather I pursued her with hot lust’

Question 11

Lodovico when Francisco (disguised as a moor) and Zanche are speaking

Literally, the societal webs of deceit and intrigue are untangled and the mystery solved
Places society as synonymous with original sin via ref to snake - bed of snakes suggests continued breeding of sin by parents onto children
Plosive ‘b’ and sibilant ‘s’ presents the brutality of society

Answer 11

‘the bed of snakes is broke’