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Duke - ‘the dribbling

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dart of love’

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Duke - ‘give me

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your hand

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Duke - ‘you will demand

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of me why I do this’

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Duke - ‘what king so strong can tie

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the gall up in the slanderous tongue?’

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Duke - ‘an Angelo for Claudio,

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death for death’

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Duke - ‘thou art

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death’s fool’

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Duke - ‘he hath released him,

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Isabel, from the world’

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Duke - ‘do not like to

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stage me with their eyes’

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Duke - ‘enforce or qualify

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the laws as to your soul seems good’

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Duke - ‘we have strict statutes

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and most biting laws’

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Angelo - ‘my authority bears

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of a credent bulk’

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Angelo - ‘give up your body to such sweet uncleanness

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as she that he hath stained’

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Angelo - ‘tis one thing to be tempted…

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another to fall’

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Angelo - ‘the tempter or the tempted,

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who sins most?’

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Angelo - ‘strong and swelling

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evil of my conception’

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Angelo - ‘lay down

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the treasures of your body’

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Angelo - ‘my false

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o’erweighs your true’

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Angelo - ‘hoping you’ll find good cause

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to whip them all’

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Angelo - ‘we must not make

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a scarecrow of the law’

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Angelo - ‘it is the law,

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not I, condemn your brother’

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Angelo - ‘heaven hath my empty words;

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whilst my invention… anchors on Isabel’

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Duke - ‘a man of stricture

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and firm abstinence’

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Duke - ‘his appetite is more to bread

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than stone’

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Isabella - ‘concupiscible

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intemperate lust’

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Isabella - ‘wishing a more

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strict restraint’

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Isabella - ‘tis set down so in heaven,

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but not in earth’

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Isabella - ‘strip myself to death

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as to a bed’

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Isabella - ‘better it were a brother died at once,

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than that a sister by redeeming him should die for ever’

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Isabella - ‘then Isabel live chaste,

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and brother die’

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Isabella - ‘should meet

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the blow of justice’

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Isabella - ‘it is excellent to have the strength of a giant,

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but it is tyrannous to use it like one’

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Isabella - ‘you seemed of late

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to make the law a tyrant’

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Mariana - ‘I crave no other,

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nor no better man’

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Provost - ‘judgement hath

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repented o’er his doom’

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Duke - ‘the steeled gaoler

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is the friend of man’ (Provost)

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Claudio - ‘the demi-god

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Authority’

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Claudio - ‘a thirsty evil,

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and when we drink, we die’

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Claudio - ‘like unscoured armour

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hung by th’wall’

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39
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Claudio - ‘now puts the drowsy

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and neglected Act freshly on me’

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Escalus - ‘rather cut a little

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than fall and bruise to death’

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Escalus - ‘some rise by sin

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and some by virtue fall’

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Escalus - ‘Pompey

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the Great’

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Elbow - ‘two notorious

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benefactors’

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Elbow - ‘prove it before

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these varlets here’

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Barnadine - ‘away you rogue,

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away, I am sleepy’

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Barnadine - ‘I will not die today

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for any man’s persuasion’

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Lucio - ‘very

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snow-broth’

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Lucio - ‘Hail

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virgin’

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Lucio - ‘Impiety has made

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a feast of thee’

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Lucio - ‘Madam

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Mitigation’

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Lucio - ‘I have purchased as many

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diseases under her roof as come to… judge’

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Lucio - ‘you are

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too cold’

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Lucio - ‘Ay, touch

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him’

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Lucio - ‘a very superficial,

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ignorant, unweighing fellow’

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Lucio - ‘when he makes water,

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his urine is congealed ice’

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Lucio - ‘ungenitured

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agent’

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Pompey - ‘good counsellors

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lack no clients’

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Pompey - ‘geld and splay

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all the youth of the city’

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Overdone - ‘I am

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custom-shrunk’

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‘competing claims

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of order and disorder’ (Hillman)

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‘difference itself is

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constituted as subversive’ (Hillman)

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Society ‘founded paradoxically

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upon a hideous moral compass’ (Smith)

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‘we are left hungry and thirsty

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for some wholesome single grain of righteousness’ (Swinburne)

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Everyone ‘receives his deserts in light of the Duke’s-

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which is really the Gospel’s - ethic’ (Wilson-Knight)

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‘supposed to be

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a sort of moral lesson’ (Skura)

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‘meaning an nature

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of death pervade the play’ (Spurgeon)

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‘what Angelo last articulated

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was a longing for death’ (Hillman)

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Religious play, but needs bawdy humour to be

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‘alienating and humanising’ (Brook)

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‘Isabella is mercy

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as well as Chastity’ (Tillyard)

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Claudio and Juliet ‘represent

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ungenerate manking’ (Tillyard)

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Dramatic and ethic essence lies in ‘the irreconcilable

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juxtaposition’ of Holy and Rough (Chedzgoy)

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Emphasis on Vienna is emphasis on

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‘religious extremism’ (Gibbon)

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Institution seek to ‘control

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us by shame’ (Donellan)

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‘sexually appealing paradox

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of the passionate nun’ (Stock)

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Play’s attention ‘confined

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chiefly to sexual ethics’ (Wilson-Knight)

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‘opposition between

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law and passion’ (Eagleton)

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Sex emerges ‘in service

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of the larger design’ (Hillman)

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‘stages the interweaving of

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sexuality, morality and power’ (Chedzgoy)

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‘semen and slander course through

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the body politic like metaphorical bacteria’ (Gibbons)

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‘chastity assures legitimacy,

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and legitimacy authorises patriarchy’ (Baines)

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Shakespeare exposes the ‘horrible, revolting,

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perplexing and grotesque aspects of human nature’ (Spurgeon)

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‘there can be no comedy

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without cruelty’ (Nietzsche)

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Issues raised ‘proclude

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a completely satisfactory outcome’ (Boas)

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Lucio and Pompey ‘put across subtle ideas

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about religion and sexual expression’ (McNamara)

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Lucio and Pompey ‘indirectly raise

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controversial issues’ (McNamara)

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Pompey and overdone ‘stand for

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professional immorality’ (Wilson-Knight)

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Barnadine ‘hard-headed,

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criminal, insensitiveness’ (Wilson-Knight)

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Bawdy characters ‘follow their impulses

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without scruple or restraint’ (L.C. Knights)

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‘self-righteous elevation

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of chastity over charity’ (Skura)

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isabella’s preoccupation with chastity shows ‘spiritual

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arrogance’ (Gless)

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Isabella driven by

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‘sexual nausea’ (Wardle)

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Isabellais the feminine counterpart in her ‘professed hatred

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of sex’ but ‘underlying keen appetite’ (Hawkins)

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Isabella ‘not unaffected’ by involvement in a plot

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of ‘illicit sexuality’ (Smith)

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Isabella ‘innocent

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not naive’ (Dionisotti)

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Isabella’s ‘flaws arise

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from her inexperience’ (Bennett)

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Isabella has ‘elevated the value of her chastity

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into a religious principle’ (Jackson)

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Duke’s actions ‘riddled…

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with dubious manipulations’ (Hillman)

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Duke ‘in the midst

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of a deep personal crisis’ (Allam)

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Duke ‘vain,

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interested in image mongering’ (Coursen)

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Duke ‘more absorbed in his own plots

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than anxious for the welfare of the state’ (Hazlitt)

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Duke want to maintain ‘a sinister form

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of ideological control’ (Dallimore)

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If Duke is ‘an image

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of providence’, there would be chaos in heaven (Barton)

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Angelo ‘tormented rather than

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gratified by his desires’ (Smith)

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Angelo ‘a fanatic choked

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by the consciousness of his own virtue’ (Trewin)

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Angelo ‘the sadistic

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superego’ (Skura)

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Angelo has a ‘split personality’

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between public an private personae (Aronson)

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Angelo = ‘authoritarian

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repression’ (Dallimore)

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Angelo ‘the most contemptible

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kind of hypocrite’ (Frye)

109
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Angelo becomes ‘increasingly worthy

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of reproach’ as the play goes on’ (Reed)

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Lucio represents ‘indecent

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wit’ (Wilson-Knight)

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Lucio’s function is ‘to keep us informed

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and unite the characters’ (Dunkel)

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Lucio displays ‘a spirit of

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irreverence and insubordination’ (Dodd)

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