Measure for Measure blitz Flashcards
Duke - ‘the dribbling
dart of love’
Duke - ‘give me
your hand
Duke - ‘you will demand
of me why I do this’
Duke - ‘what king so strong can tie
the gall up in the slanderous tongue?’
Duke - ‘an Angelo for Claudio,
death for death’
Duke - ‘thou art
death’s fool’
Duke - ‘he hath released him,
Isabel, from the world’
Duke - ‘do not like to
stage me with their eyes’
Duke - ‘enforce or qualify
the laws as to your soul seems good’
Duke - ‘we have strict statutes
and most biting laws’
Angelo - ‘my authority bears
of a credent bulk’
Angelo - ‘give up your body to such sweet uncleanness
as she that he hath stained’
Angelo - ‘tis one thing to be tempted…
another to fall’
Angelo - ‘the tempter or the tempted,
who sins most?’
Angelo - ‘strong and swelling
evil of my conception’
Angelo - ‘lay down
the treasures of your body’
Angelo - ‘my false
o’erweighs your true’
Angelo - ‘hoping you’ll find good cause
to whip them all’
Angelo - ‘we must not make
a scarecrow of the law’
Angelo - ‘it is the law,
not I, condemn your brother’
Angelo - ‘heaven hath my empty words;
whilst my invention… anchors on Isabel’
Duke - ‘a man of stricture
and firm abstinence’
Duke - ‘his appetite is more to bread
than stone’
Isabella - ‘concupiscible
intemperate lust’
Isabella - ‘wishing a more
strict restraint’
Isabella - ‘tis set down so in heaven,
but not in earth’
Isabella - ‘strip myself to death
as to a bed’
Isabella - ‘better it were a brother died at once,
than that a sister by redeeming him should die for ever’
Isabella - ‘then Isabel live chaste,
and brother die’
Isabella - ‘should meet
the blow of justice’
Isabella - ‘it is excellent to have the strength of a giant,
but it is tyrannous to use it like one’
Isabella - ‘you seemed of late
to make the law a tyrant’
Mariana - ‘I crave no other,
nor no better man’
Provost - ‘judgement hath
repented o’er his doom’
Duke - ‘the steeled gaoler
is the friend of man’ (Provost)
Claudio - ‘the demi-god
Authority’
Claudio - ‘a thirsty evil,
and when we drink, we die’
Claudio - ‘like unscoured armour
hung by th’wall’
Claudio - ‘now puts the drowsy
and neglected Act freshly on me’
Escalus - ‘rather cut a little
than fall and bruise to death’
Escalus - ‘some rise by sin
and some by virtue fall’
Escalus - ‘Pompey
the Great’
Elbow - ‘two notorious
benefactors’
Elbow - ‘prove it before
these varlets here’
Barnadine - ‘away you rogue,
away, I am sleepy’
Barnadine - ‘I will not die today
for any man’s persuasion’
Lucio - ‘very
snow-broth’
Lucio - ‘Hail
virgin’
Lucio - ‘Impiety has made
a feast of thee’
Lucio - ‘Madam
Mitigation’
Lucio - ‘I have purchased as many
diseases under her roof as come to… judge’
Lucio - ‘you are
too cold’
Lucio - ‘Ay, touch
him’
Lucio - ‘a very superficial,
ignorant, unweighing fellow’
Lucio - ‘when he makes water,
his urine is congealed ice’
Lucio - ‘ungenitured
agent’
Pompey - ‘good counsellors
lack no clients’
Pompey - ‘geld and splay
all the youth of the city’
Overdone - ‘I am
custom-shrunk’
‘competing claims
of order and disorder’ (Hillman)
‘difference itself is
constituted as subversive’ (Hillman)
Society ‘founded paradoxically
upon a hideous moral compass’ (Smith)
‘we are left hungry and thirsty
for some wholesome single grain of righteousness’ (Swinburne)
Everyone ‘receives his deserts in light of the Duke’s-
which is really the Gospel’s - ethic’ (Wilson-Knight)
‘supposed to be
a sort of moral lesson’ (Skura)
‘meaning an nature
of death pervade the play’ (Spurgeon)
‘what Angelo last articulated
was a longing for death’ (Hillman)
Religious play, but needs bawdy humour to be
‘alienating and humanising’ (Brook)
‘Isabella is mercy
as well as Chastity’ (Tillyard)
Claudio and Juliet ‘represent
ungenerate manking’ (Tillyard)
Dramatic and ethic essence lies in ‘the irreconcilable
juxtaposition’ of Holy and Rough (Chedzgoy)
Emphasis on Vienna is emphasis on
‘religious extremism’ (Gibbon)
Institution seek to ‘control
us by shame’ (Donellan)
‘sexually appealing paradox
of the passionate nun’ (Stock)
Play’s attention ‘confined
chiefly to sexual ethics’ (Wilson-Knight)
‘opposition between
law and passion’ (Eagleton)
Sex emerges ‘in service
of the larger design’ (Hillman)
‘stages the interweaving of
sexuality, morality and power’ (Chedzgoy)
‘semen and slander course through
the body politic like metaphorical bacteria’ (Gibbons)
‘chastity assures legitimacy,
and legitimacy authorises patriarchy’ (Baines)
Shakespeare exposes the ‘horrible, revolting,
perplexing and grotesque aspects of human nature’ (Spurgeon)
‘there can be no comedy
without cruelty’ (Nietzsche)
Issues raised ‘proclude
a completely satisfactory outcome’ (Boas)
Lucio and Pompey ‘put across subtle ideas
about religion and sexual expression’ (McNamara)
Lucio and Pompey ‘indirectly raise
controversial issues’ (McNamara)
Pompey and overdone ‘stand for
professional immorality’ (Wilson-Knight)
Barnadine ‘hard-headed,
criminal, insensitiveness’ (Wilson-Knight)
Bawdy characters ‘follow their impulses
without scruple or restraint’ (L.C. Knights)
‘self-righteous elevation
of chastity over charity’ (Skura)
isabella’s preoccupation with chastity shows ‘spiritual
arrogance’ (Gless)
Isabella driven by
‘sexual nausea’ (Wardle)
Isabellais the feminine counterpart in her ‘professed hatred
of sex’ but ‘underlying keen appetite’ (Hawkins)
Isabella ‘not unaffected’ by involvement in a plot
of ‘illicit sexuality’ (Smith)
Isabella ‘innocent
not naive’ (Dionisotti)
Isabella’s ‘flaws arise
from her inexperience’ (Bennett)
Isabella has ‘elevated the value of her chastity
into a religious principle’ (Jackson)
Duke’s actions ‘riddled…
with dubious manipulations’ (Hillman)
Duke ‘in the midst
of a deep personal crisis’ (Allam)
Duke ‘vain,
interested in image mongering’ (Coursen)
Duke ‘more absorbed in his own plots
than anxious for the welfare of the state’ (Hazlitt)
Duke want to maintain ‘a sinister form
of ideological control’ (Dallimore)
If Duke is ‘an image
of providence’, there would be chaos in heaven (Barton)
Angelo ‘tormented rather than
gratified by his desires’ (Smith)
Angelo ‘a fanatic choked
by the consciousness of his own virtue’ (Trewin)
Angelo ‘the sadistic
superego’ (Skura)
Angelo has a ‘split personality’
between public an private personae (Aronson)
Angelo = ‘authoritarian
repression’ (Dallimore)
Angelo ‘the most contemptible
kind of hypocrite’ (Frye)
Angelo becomes ‘increasingly worthy
of reproach’ as the play goes on’ (Reed)
Lucio represents ‘indecent
wit’ (Wilson-Knight)
Lucio’s function is ‘to keep us informed
and unite the characters’ (Dunkel)
Lucio displays ‘a spirit of
irreverence and insubordination’ (Dodd)
