Loot/Revengers Flashcards
What did Benedict Nightingale say for the Guardian in review of Loot?
Mr Orton instead offers a certain vivacity and a vague cynicism.’
How popular was drama when Revenger’s was performed?
Performed when drama was at the height of is poularity.
What are four key themes in revengers?
- Lust
- Death
- Women and misogyny
- Revenge and justice
What is black comedy?
Creating humour from disturbing subject matter, making you question whether you should be laughing at all.
What are the 7 themes in Loot?
- Appearance vs reality
- Conventions
- Comedy
- Death
- Authority
- Religion
- Deception
What is satire?
- Use of comedy to attack those in power by exposing their failings and flaws.
What is a caricature?
A depiction of a person with certain characteristics exaggerated.
What is bathos?
A sudden or unexpected shift in tone.
What is absurdity?
Highlighting ridiculous aspects of life.
What is dramatic irony?
When the audience is aware of something the characters aren’t.
What is a non-sequitur?
A statement which does not logically follow the previous one.
Finish the Andrew Mayne critique ‘a reworking of…
…the normal patterns of farce’
Finish the Andrew Mayne critique ‘Orton’s bad taste…
…is calculated’
Finish the Andrew Mayne critique ‘their inner life remains…
…an arctic void, a place devoid of all ‘natural’ humane feeling
Finish the Andrew Mayne critique ‘Loot deflects, or even destroys, our normal responses…
…without providing us any other framework of judgement except for the law of the jungle’
What quotes/moments are there for the inappropriate handling of Mrs McLeavy’s remains?
- ‘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.
What quotes/moments are there on Fay’s commentary on Mrs McLeavy?
- ‘you must find someone to take Mrs McLeavy’s place. She wasn’t perfect.’
- ‘She had a deceitful nature. That much is clear’
What quotes/moments are there for Lord Antonio’s wife (treatment of the dead) in Revenger’s?
- ‘violent rape has ended in a glorious act’
-‘draw nearer and be sad witnesses’
What quotes/moments are there for the Skull (treatment of the dead) in Revenger’s?
- ‘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?’
What quotes/moments are there for the Duke’s sexual perversion in Revenger’s?
- ‘Give me that sin that’s robed in holiness’
What quotes/moments are there for incest between Spurio and the Duchess in Revengers?
- ‘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.’
What quotes/moments are there for inappropriate relationships in loot?
- ‘my husbands died. I’ve had seven altogether. One a year on average since I was sixteen.’
What quotes/moments are there for Blasphemy in Loot?
- ‘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.
What quotes/moments are there for rape in Loot?
-‘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.
What quotes/moments are there for murder in Loot?
- Fay’s murders are skimmed over - not major plot points which trivialises the action.
What quotes/moments are there for Rape in Revengers?
- ‘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.’
What quotes/moments are there for murder in Revengers?
- ‘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)
What is Brian Gibbons 2002 critic on treatment of the dead in Revenger’s?
‘tragic burlesque’
What is Martin Esslin’s critic on Crime in Loot?
‘sniggering schoolboy mentality or a nasty mind.’
What is the Andrew Mayne critic to do with shallow characterisation?
‘their inner life remains an arctic void, a place devoid of all ‘natural’ humane feeling.’
What quotes are there from Loot to do with familial response to Mrs McLeavy’s death?
- ‘It’s dust dad’
- ‘He clicks the teeth like castanets’
- ‘He said he was glad she died at the right season for roses’
What quotes are there from Revengers to do with family hating each other?
- ‘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.’
In what was are familial relations different in Revenger’s to in Loot?
In Loot relationships are just devoid of feeling, whereas in Revengers there is active hatred between characters.
What quotes are there for separate agenda’s within families in ‘Loot’?
- ‘(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.’
What quotes are there for separate agenda’s within families in Revenger’s (Ambitioso and Supervacuo)?
- (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’
What quotes are there for Hal and McLeavy’s unconventional power dynamic in Loot?
- (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.’
What quotes are there for the Duchess and Spurio’s unconventional power dynamic in Revenger’s?
- (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.’
What is Alexander Leggatt’s critic for ambition in Revengers?
‘The driving forces are lust and ambition’
What quotes are there for Castiza and Gratiana in Revengers?
- ’ 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’
What quotes are there in revengers for Vindice and Piato?
- ‘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!
What quotes are there for the Skull in disguise in Revengers?
- ‘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’
What quotes are there for the duke as Piato in Revengers?
- ‘if we dressed up the body of the Duke’
-‘murdered him and left him disguised’
What quotes are there the façade of grief in Loot?
- ‘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.’
what A vs R quotes are there for Truscott in Loot?
- ‘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.’
What are Faye’s authority quotes?
- ‘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.’
What are Truscott’s authority quotes?
- ‘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’
What are the Duke’s quotes on authority?
- ‘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’
What are Lord Antonio’s quotes on authority?
- ‘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.’
What are Lussurioso’s quotes on authority?
- ‘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?’
What quotes are there for the darkness of comedy (Farce) in Loot?
- ‘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’
What moments are there for absurdity in Loot?
- McLeavy is the one who is arrested at the end.
- Faye is a serial killer
- Everyone believes Truscott is from the water board.
What quotes are there for McLeavy (farce) in loot?
- ‘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?
What quotes are there for Truscott (farce) in Loot?
- ‘Any deception I practised was never intended to deceive you’
- ‘Police, like red squirrels, should be protected.
What quotes are there for Truscott (farce) in Loot?
- ‘Any deception I practised was never intended to deceive you’
- ‘Police, like red squirrels, should be protected.
What quotes are there for Truscott (farce) in Loot?
- ‘Any deception I practised was never intended to deceive you’
- ‘Police, like red squirrels, should be protected.
What quotes are there for Truscott (farce) in Loot?
- ‘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.’
What quotes are there for the Duchess’s revenge on the Duke in Revengers?
- ‘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’
What quotes are there for Spurio’s revenge on the duke?
- ‘Who would not be revenged of such a father?’
- ‘Ay there’s vengeance that my birth is wrapped in.’
What quotes are there for Vindice’s revenge on the duke?
- ‘impious steeped’
- ‘vengeance, thou murders quit-rent’
- ‘give revenge her due’
-thy purer part would not consent unto his palsy lust’
What is Brian Gibbons 2002 critic on Vindice?
‘Vindice is not a tragic hero’
