Malfi - Antonio quotes

Question 1

Corruption

Answer 1

• ‘their judicious king… quits first his royal palace of flattering sycophants’
• ‘his nature is too honest for such a business’

Question 2

Status/transgression

Answer 2

• ‘there is a saucy and ambitious devil dancing in this circle’
• ‘this goodly roof of yours is too low built; I cannot stand upright in it’
• ‘you are a lord of mis-rule’

Question 3

Inefficacy

Answer 3

• ‘my hope of reconcilement to the Arragonian brethren’

Question 4

Morality/status

Answer 4

• ‘like wanton boys whose pastime is their car, we follow after bubbles blown in the air’