M4M Comedy, Motifs, Dramatic irony Flashcards
“Putting a ducat in her clack-dish” vs “Coining heaven’s image”
D1: Double entendre, visual imagery and sexual innuendo: placing a coin in a begging bowl to a crude and disrespectful reference to copulation
D2: Visual imagery and Motif of coins in “ducat” flagrantly disparages all the Duke’s moral authenticity. Coins are a measurement of legitimacy and a symbolic of whether something is sanctioned, or liable to be treated with contempt for being impure as seen in the comparison of bearing children to “coining heaven’s image” .
Challenges whether the Duke is morally pure and legitimate as the coin should be, and is a symbol of
D3: Pun on “Ducato” which refers to dukedom, a region which a Duke rules over, and also the ducal coin could call the Duke’s ruling into question, and possibly emphasise the shameful failure in his position of authority .
