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Loot/Revengers Flashcards

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What did Benedict Nightingale say for the Guardian in review of Loot?

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Mr Orton instead offers a certain vivacity and a vague cynicism.’

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How popular was drama when Revenger’s was performed?

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Performed when drama was at the height of is poularity.

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What are four key themes in revengers?

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  • Lust
  • Death
  • Women and misogyny
  • Revenge and justice
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What is black comedy?

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Creating humour from disturbing subject matter, making you question whether you should be laughing at all.

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What are the 7 themes in Loot?

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  • Appearance vs reality
  • Conventions
  • Comedy
  • Death
  • Authority
  • Religion
  • Deception
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What is satire?

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  • Use of comedy to attack those in power by exposing their failings and flaws.
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What is a caricature?

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A depiction of a person with certain characteristics exaggerated.

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What is bathos?

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A sudden or unexpected shift in tone.

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What is absurdity?

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Highlighting ridiculous aspects of life.

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What is dramatic irony?

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When the audience is aware of something the characters aren’t.

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What is a non-sequitur?

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A statement which does not logically follow the previous one.

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Finish the Andrew Mayne critique ‘a reworking of…

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…the normal patterns of farce’

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Finish the Andrew Mayne critique ‘Orton’s bad taste…

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…is calculated’

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Finish the Andrew Mayne critique ‘their inner life remains…

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…an arctic void, a place devoid of all ‘natural’ humane feeling

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Finish the Andrew Mayne critique ‘Loot deflects, or even destroys, our normal responses…

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…without providing us any other framework of judgement except for the law of the jungle’

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What quotes/moments are there for the inappropriate handling of Mrs McLeavy’s remains?

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  • ‘They tip the coffin on end and shake the corpse into the wardrobe’
  • ‘He clicks the teeth like castanets’
  • The fact that the money is in the coffin and the body is in the wardrobe.
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What quotes/moments are there on Fay’s commentary on Mrs McLeavy?

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  • ‘you must find someone to take Mrs McLeavy’s place. She wasn’t perfect.’
  • ‘She had a deceitful nature. That much is clear’
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What quotes/moments are there for Lord Antonio’s wife (treatment of the dead) in Revenger’s?

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  • ‘violent rape has ended in a glorious act’
    -‘draw nearer and be sad witnesses’
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What quotes/moments are there for the Skull (treatment of the dead) in Revenger’s?

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  • ‘He kisses the skull’
  • ‘She’s somewhat a grave look with her’
  • ‘Have I not fitted the old surfeiter with a quaint piece of beauty?’
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What quotes/moments are there for the Duke’s sexual perversion in Revenger’s?

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  • ‘Give me that sin that’s robed in holiness’
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What quotes/moments are there for incest between Spurio and the Duchess in Revengers?

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  • ‘O one incestuous kiss picks open hell’
  • ‘there’s a vengeance that my birth was wrapped in. I’ll be revenged for all now hate begin, I’ll call foul incest but a venial sin.’
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What quotes/moments are there for inappropriate relationships in loot?

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  • ‘my husbands died. I’ve had seven altogether. One a year on average since I was sixteen.’
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What quotes/moments are there for Blasphemy in Loot?

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  • ‘You’ve had her. Knocked it off under that picture of the sacred heart.’
  • ‘She’s three parts papal nuncio. She’d only do it at set times.
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What quotes/moments are there for rape in Loot?

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-‘you never had the blessing of rape… broke a tooth in the struggle she did.’
- run by three Pakistanis aged between ten and fifteen. Do it for sweets.

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What quotes/moments are there for murder in Loot?

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  • Fay’s murders are skimmed over - not major plot points which trivialises the action.
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What quotes/moments are there for Rape in Revengers?

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  • ‘my faults being sport let me but die in jest’
  • ‘deemed a nobler dowry for her name to die with poison than to live with shame.’
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What quotes/moments are there for murder in Revengers?

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  • ‘The Revenger’s dance. At the end they steal out their swords and these four kill all four at the table.’
  • Crime has to be seen; it’s a performance (masque)
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What is Brian Gibbons 2002 critic on treatment of the dead in Revenger’s?

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‘tragic burlesque’

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What is Martin Esslin’s critic on Crime in Loot?

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‘sniggering schoolboy mentality or a nasty mind.’

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What is the Andrew Mayne critic to do with shallow characterisation?

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‘their inner life remains an arctic void, a place devoid of all ‘natural’ humane feeling.’

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What quotes are there from Loot to do with familial response to Mrs McLeavy’s death?

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  • ‘It’s dust dad’
  • ‘He clicks the teeth like castanets’
  • ‘He said he was glad she died at the right season for roses’
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What quotes are there from Revengers to do with family hating each other?

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  • ‘Hope he shall die; and if a bastards wish might stand in force, would all the court were turned into a corpse.’
  • ‘so deadly do I loathe him for my birth that if he took me hasped within his bed, I would add murder to adultery.’
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In what was are familial relations different in Revenger’s to in Loot?

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In Loot relationships are just devoid of feeling, whereas in Revengers there is active hatred between characters.

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What quotes are there for separate agenda’s within families in ‘Loot’?

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  • ‘(D) is that enough?’ (F) ‘You’ve a slight lead on McLeavy at the moment’
  • (F) ‘I already have seven by right of conquest’ (wedding rings)
  • (MCL) ‘married? But then you’d have all my money as well as Mrs McLeavy’s’ (F) ‘that’s one way of looking at it.’
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What quotes are there for separate agenda’s within families in Revenger’s (Ambitioso and Supervacuo)?

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  • (A) ‘The falling of one head lifts another’
  • (A) ‘Then I am heir - duke in a minute! (S) ‘here is a pin, should quickly prick your bladder’ (Aside)
  • ‘One word for his life, we may make three for his death’
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What quotes are there for Hal and McLeavy’s unconventional power dynamic in Loot?

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  • (H) ‘You’ve lost nothing, you began the day with a dead wife, you end it with a dead wife’
  • (H) ‘If you wish to arrest my dad, I’ll be an exemplary witness.’
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What quotes are there for the Duchess and Spurio’s unconventional power dynamic in Revenger’s?

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  • (S) ‘I’ll call foul incest but a venial sin’
  • (S) ‘O one incestuous kiss picks open hell’
  • (S) ‘Stepmother I consent to thy desires, I love thy mischief well but I hate thee.’
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What is Alexander Leggatt’s critic for ambition in Revengers?

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‘The driving forces are lust and ambition’

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What quotes are there for Castiza and Gratiana in Revengers?

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  • ’ I did this but to try you’
  • ‘Be thou a glass for maid and I for mothers’
    -‘I am content… to prostitute my breast to the dukes son’
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What quotes are there in revengers for Vindice and Piato?

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  • ‘Brother I’ll be that strange composed fellow’
  • ‘For to be honest is not to be in the world’
  • ‘tis I, tis vindice, tis I!
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What quotes are there for the Skull in disguise in Revengers?

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  • ‘a country lady, a little bashful at first’
  • tis the skill of Gloriana, whom thou poisoned last’
  • ‘She’s somewhat a grave look with her’
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What quotes are there for the duke as Piato in Revengers?

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  • ‘if we dressed up the body of the Duke’
    -‘murdered him and left him disguised’
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What quotes are there the façade of grief in Loot?

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  • ‘I’m not in favour of private grief. Show your emotions in public or not at al.’
  • ‘she was such an active sort of person’
    -‘She returns to her prayers, her lips moving silently. Dennis and Hal are at either end of the coffin.’
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what A vs R quotes are there for Truscott in Loot?

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  • ‘Any deception I practised was never intended to deceive you.’
  • ‘I want you to help me blindly without asking questions.’
  • ‘He puts his pipe in the corner of his mouth and picks up the glass eye.’
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What are Faye’s authority quotes?

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  • ‘Can an accidental death be arranged?’
    -‘My husbands died. I’ve had seven altogether.’
    -‘I’m not in favour of private grief. Mourn in public or not at all.’
  • ‘knocked her off under that picture of the sacred heart.’
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What are Truscott’s authority quotes?

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  • ‘Elementary detection.’
  • ‘I want you to help me blindly without asking any questions.’
  • ‘Anything can be arranged in prison.’
  • ‘Under any other political system I’d have you on the floor in tears! You’ve got me on the floor in tears.’
  • ‘Any deception I practised was never intended to deceive you’
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What are the Duke’s quotes on authority?

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  • ‘Duke - royal lecher’
  • ‘O take me not in sleep; I have great sins.’
  • ‘Many a beauty have I turned to poison.’
  • ‘The old Duke poisoned because thy purer part would not consent unto his palsy-lust’
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What are Lord Antonio’s quotes on authority?

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  • ‘just is the law above’
  • ‘lay hands upon these villains’
  • ‘May I so rule that heaven may keep the crown.’
  • ‘you that would murder him would murder me.’
  • ‘The hope of Italy lies in your reverend years.’
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What are Lussurioso’s quotes on authority?

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  • ‘foolish-chaste’
  • ‘His son, as impious steeped as he.’
  • Blazing star
  • ‘I am past my depth in lust, and must swim or drown.’
  • ‘Has heaven not an ear? Is all lightning wasted?’
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What quotes are there for the darkness of comedy (Farce) in Loot?

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  • ‘Run by three Pakistanis aged between ten and fifteen… do it for sweets’
  • ‘you never had the blessing of a rape… broke a tooth in the struggle she did’
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What moments are there for absurdity in Loot?

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  • McLeavy is the one who is arrested at the end.
  • Faye is a serial killer
  • Everyone believes Truscott is from the water board.
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What quotes are there for McLeavy (farce) in loot?

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  • ‘God rest the poor soul. I shall miss her.’
  • ‘was your chapel of rest defiled? Human remains weren’t outraged?
  • ‘Are those Mrs McLeavy’s slippers? Is the fur genuine?
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What quotes are there for Truscott (farce) in Loot?

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  • ‘Any deception I practised was never intended to deceive you’
  • ‘Police, like red squirrels, should be protected.
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What quotes are there for Truscott (farce) in Loot?

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  • ‘Any deception I practised was never intended to deceive you’
  • ‘Police, like red squirrels, should be protected.
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What quotes are there for Truscott (farce) in Loot?

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  • ‘Any deception I practised was never intended to deceive you’
  • ‘Police, like red squirrels, should be protected.
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What quotes are there for Truscott (farce) in Loot?

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  • ‘Any deception I practised was never intended to deceive you’
  • ‘Police, like red squirrels, should be protected.’
  • ‘I want you to help me blindly without asking any questions.’
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What quotes are there for the Duchess’s revenge on the Duke in Revengers?

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  • ‘His duchess that will do with devil’
  • ‘My vengeance shall reach high’
  • ‘I would thank that sin that could most injure him.’
  • ‘I’ll kill him in his forehead’
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What quotes are there for Spurio’s revenge on the duke?

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  • ‘Who would not be revenged of such a father?’
  • ‘Ay there’s vengeance that my birth is wrapped in.’
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What quotes are there for Vindice’s revenge on the duke?

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  • ‘impious steeped’
  • ‘vengeance, thou murders quit-rent’
  • ‘give revenge her due’
    -thy purer part would not consent unto his palsy lust’
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What is Brian Gibbons 2002 critic on Vindice?

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‘Vindice is not a tragic hero’

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